Sunstone Press: 235 books
Georgia O'Keeffe, A Private Friendship, Part I
Walking the Sun Prairie Land
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
The time is 1887. From any window in Georgia O’Keeffe’s Sun Prairie, Wisconsin birthplace home she only saw the Wisconsin prairie with its traces of roads veering around the flat marshlands and a vast sky that lifted her soul. At twelve years of age Georgia had a defining moment when she declared,...
Memoirs, Episodes in New Mexico History, 1892-1969
Facsimile of 1969 Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
William A. Keleher always had an active curiosity and this made him an outstanding newspaperman and an indefatigable researcher of historical events. It led him into many intellectual adventures that resulted in a whole series of books of New Mexicana. In this personal narrative, he gives readers...
Lowrider Blues
Cantando, Gritando, y Llorando, a Compilation of Short Stories and Observations from My Inner Barrio
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
This collection of short stories and prose chronicles events observed by the author during her lifetime in Northern New Mexico. Family, relatives, friends and strangers (real or imaginary) are caught off guard in everyday occurrences that evoke laughter, tears, or memories of the past. The names have,...
The Fabulous Frontier, 1846-1912
Facsimile of 1962 Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2008
Recapturing the atmosphere of Territorial days, this 1962 extensively annotated edition of a Southwestern classic focuses on southeastern New Mexico, where "murder was a common offense" and stagecoach robberies were "nothing to get excited about." The delineation of this last,...
How Far the Mountain
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
"How Far The Mountain" is the story of a man, a woman, and a mountain. The woman, from the city, must go to the mountain to discover who she is after her husband's death from cancer. The man, a cowboy, must force himself to go to the mountain and make a shrine from the bones of 'Texas Lady,'...
Ride for the Lone Star
A Western Quest Series Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Aaron Turner is a tall redheaded fifty-three year old minister and Lieutenant Colonel in the Texas militia. Duty calls him to participate in both the Cherokee and Wichita Wars. He and his family struggle to survive the financial panic of 1837, Indian raids, a whooping cough epidemic and scorching drought....
by Teresa Pijoan PhD
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Myths tell us much about a people. And all cultures have creation myths. The myths collected by the author in this book tell us about the rich and varied lives and imagination of the first Americans. They vary from simple to complex and all attempt to answer the question of human origin. Native Americans...
Healers on the Mountain
and Other Myths of Native American Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
A unique characteristic of Native American medicine is the belief that each patient holds a different spirit, and that the healing can only work when it affects the individual spirit. Mythology is essential to this healing process. The belief stories within these pages reflect a culture that holds...
Children of Destiny
True Adventures of Three Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
The best way to know about history is to be part of it. The next best way is to read about it and come away feeling as if you had been part of the events and action. Jean Burroughs has selected twelve exciting episodes covering a span of five centuries to bring history to life. Her young heroes and heroines...
On the Road to Glory
A Western Quest Series Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
ON THE ROAD TO GLORY, the fifth volume in the Western Quest Series, follows Aaron Lloyd Turner, his brothers David and Noah, and their brother-in-law, Pinckney Hawkins, through the greatest tragedy in American history, the Civil War. Aaron’s father had died when he was only a toddler. He was raised...
by Gene Meany Hodge
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
This collection of American Indian legends was gathered by Gene Meany Hodge from authentic sources in the 1930s and centers around the sacred supernatural personages of the American Pueblo Indians called Kachinas (pronounced Kah-chee-nahs). Mrs. Hodge wrote: “All in all the Kachinas are lovable...
The Land
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Crumbling Indian and Spanish ruins, lost gold and a modern ranch are all part of The Land where centuries of men and women have lived, loved, fought and died. It is a novel of their hopes, dreams of wealth and power, their lust and greed. Symbolic of what this piece of earth means is the spear point...
Bounded Rationality
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
They’re the golden couple of Santa Fe. With his vast wealth, Molloy has launched an innovative foundation. His new wife, Judith Greenwood, is an internationally known scientist, who works at the famous think-tank, the Santa Fe Institute, pursuing the sciences of complexity. They’ve found each...
Maxwell Land Grant
Facsimile of 1942 Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2008
When the United States acquired New Mexico by invasion and conquest on August 15, 1846, it inherited a land grant problem of considerable magnitude. This problem continued for decades until 1870 when the United States Congress suddenly declined to act at all on any New Mexico grant claim. Among the...