In the vast expanse of territorial New Mexico, railroads had a striking impact. Many cities, among them Carlsbad, Raton, Clovis, and Gallup, were founded as railroad stops. Architect Marci Riskin explores the history of railroad depots and other structures--everything but the trains themselves--that make up New Mexico's railway legacy. To begin ......
The beauty of the canyons and mesas of the Colorado Plateau and the lives of the resourceful people that once occupied these now nearly empty places are the subject of the 85 black-and-white photographs and accompanying essays in Canyon Spirits. John Ninnemann's photographs of Chaco, Mesa Verde, Hovenweep, Cedar Mesa, Grand Gulch, and the San Juan ......
The practice of irrigational agriculture has always set the Pueblo Indians apart from other native groups on the New Mexican frontier. For centuries, farming has been the foundation of the economy of all nineteen Pueblo Indian groups and their ancestors. It led to their theocratic system of government to control water and land use and to a complex ......
This collective biography of six remarkable twentieth-century New Mexicans, sheds light on the distinct role of women in shaping American multi-culturalism. Maureen Reed recounts the lives of Mary Austin and Mabel Dodge Luhan, both Anglo American literary figures; Cleofas Jaramillo and Fabiola Cabeza de Baca, both Hispanic authors and folklorists; ......
Amphibians and reptiles thrive in New Mexico's many landscapes and its extremes of temperatures and moisture. The state has 123 species, an assemblage of 3 salamanders, 23 frogs and toads, 10 turtles, 41 lizards, and 46 snakes. In this comprehensive guide, each species is presented in a colour photograph and its distribution shown on a map. ......
New Mexico's state archives offer a rich collection of documents from the Spanish, Mexican, and Territorial periods. Robert J Torrez has mined this collection to produce a series of thirty-six articles that give us an idea of the stark reality of everyday life: what ordinary people went through to feed and protect their families, keep warm, ......
Este libro introduce los estudiantes que leen y hablan en espanol a la historia del estado de Nuevo Mexico. Es una traduccion del ingles al espanol del libro escrito por los autores Calvin y Susan Roberts que se usa en la mayoria de las escuelas medias en el estado. Con esta traduccion, las escuelas tendran por primera vez una via para darle a ......
This is a large, full-colour map of Sandia Mountain, printed on water-resistant paper, to accompany the "Sandia Mountain Hiking Guide", which presents information on fifty-seven trails, covering a total distance of about 175 miles. It is drawn according to the scale - 1:31680 (1 inch = mile).
