University Of New Mexico Press: 489 books
Skiing New Mexico
A Guide to Snow Sports in the Land of Enchantment
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
This invaluable book tells you everything there is to know about skiing and snowboarding in the Land of Enchantment, with thousands of helpful details on the state’s downhill ski resorts and cross-country and backcountry venues.Each ski area is profiled in a separate chapter, including details...
by Max Evans
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2007
Born in New Mexico at the end of World War I, Bluefeather Fellini is half-Pueblo Indian and half-Italian. Throughout his life, Bluefeather enjoys roaming and seeking his fortunes elsewhere, but he is always drawn back to Taos, the home of his Indian mother. During times of danger, he is visited by...
Healing with Herbs and Rituals
A Mexican Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Healing with Herbs and Rituals is an herbal remedy-based understanding of curanderismo and the practice of yerberas, or herbalists, as found in the American Southwest and northern Mexico. Part One, "Folk Healers and Folk Healing," focuses on individual healers and their procedures. Part Two,...
by Jean-Luc E. Cartron, Timothy Lowrey, Jane Mygatt
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
Extending from the spillway below Cochiti Dam, about fifty miles north of Albuquerque, to the headwaters of Elephant Butte Reservoir, near Truth or Consequences in the southern portion of New Mexico, the Middle Rio Grande Bosque is more than a cottonwood woodland or forest. It is a complete riverside...
King Tiger
The Religious Vision of Reies Lípez Tijerina
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2006
"Right now we look like a cricket. What is a cricket? King of the Insects; a little, tiny animal. All the cricket can do is [say] 'cricket, cricket, cricket.' Just a noise, that's all. But you know, if that cricket gets in the ear of the lion and scratches inside, there is nothing the lion can do....
Mayordomo
Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1988
Irrigation ditches are the lifelines of agriculture and daily life in rural New Mexico. This award-winning account of the author's experience as a mayordomo, or ditch boss, is the first record of the life of an acequia by a community participant.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2005
This collection of six bilingual children's stories takes a regional and historical emphases. Sixteen provides the background of September 16, Mexico's day of independence from Spain, and places it in a present-day context with which children can easily identify. "The Little General" teaches children...
A Walk Around the Horizon
Discovering New Mexico's Mountains of the Four Directions
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
North of Santa Fe, the New Mexico landscape is framed by four high mountains. Although they are sacred to the Tewa Pueblo Indians, the four peaks are in different bureaucratic and cultural zones, which means that each peak attracts visitors but few non-Indian travelers visit more than one of the mountains....
Survival Along the Continental Divide
An Anthology of Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2008
For over forty years aural historian Jack Loeffler has wandered the West engaging people in conversations and recording those conversations for posterity. When asked by the New Mexico Humanities Council to produce an anthology of interviews that would combine elements of two projects sponsored by...
Grandpa Lolo's Navajo Saddle Blanket
La tilma de Abuelito Lolo
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Grandpa Lolo lives on a ranch in northern New Mexico. When he buys a black-and-white horse named Zorrillo (skunk) from Manuelito Yazzie, a Navajo who lives in a hogan in Torreón, Manuelito throws a tilma, a beautiful Navajo saddle blanket, into the deal. And so begins a beautiful friendship.This...
by Sue Boggio, Mare Pearl
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Hailed by Booklist as “two talented authors who vividly bring to life the beauty of New Mexico and its people,” Sue Boggio and Mare Pearl return in A Growing Season to Esperanza, New Mexico, the setting of their first book, Sunlight and Shadow. Esperanza is a community at the crossroads where...
Capirotada
A Nogales Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1999
Capirotada, Mexican bread pudding, is a mysterious mixture of prunes, peanuts, white bread, raisins, milk, quesadilla cheese, butter, cinnamon and cloves, Old World sugar--"all this," writes Alberto Rios, "and things people will not tell you."Like its Mexican namesake, this memoir is a rich...
by Steven D. Hsi
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2004
Dr. Steven D. Hsi, a family physician and father of two young sons, was diagnosed in 1995 with a rare coronary disease that caused his death five years later at the age of forty-four. Throughout his ordeals as a patient, including three open-heart surgeries, Dr. Hsi's outlook on the teaching and practice...
Philmont
A History of New Mexico's Cimarron Country
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Here is the first comprehensive history of the Colfax County area of northeastern New Mexico. Best known today as the home of the Philmont Scout Ranch, where thousands of Boy Scouts from around the world gather every year, this beautiful country has a violent and varied past. Centering around the...