University Of New Mexico Press: 489 books
by Sabine R. Ulibarrí
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1993
A mysterious and majestic white stallion, an angelic but unsophisticated village priest, gossips with scathing tongues, and a blacksmith with awesome strength are among the characters that populate the charming stories of Sabine Ulibarrí.Ulibarrí, a native of Tierra Amarilla, takes the reader...
by Sharon Niederman
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2005
Called home to a funeral in Monte Alto, a small ranching community in New Mexico, journalist Maggie Chilton finds herself face to face with everything she left behind when she graduated from high school. Against the harsh beauty of the landscape and the memories it holds, three generations of women--Maggie,...
Chasing the Santa Fe Ring
Power and Privilege in Territorial New Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Anyone who has even a casual acquaintance with the history of New Mexico in the nineteenth century has heard of the Santa Fe Ring—seekers of power and wealth in the post–Civil War period famous for public corruption and for dispossessing land holders. Surprisingly, however, scholars have alluded...
by Robert Julyan
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 1996
The Place Names of New Mexico is an invaluable guide to the state's geography and history. It explains more than 7,000 names of features large and small throughout the state--towns, mountains, rivers, canyons, counties, post offices, and even abandoned settlements--as well as providing relevant information...
A Harvest of Reluctant Souls
Fray Alonso de Benavides's History of New Mexico, 1630
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
The most thorough account ever written of southwestern life in the early seventeenth century, this engaging book was first published in 1630 as an official report to the king of Spain by Fray Alonso de Benavides, a Portuguese Franciscan who was the third head of the mission churches of New Mexico....
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid as I Knew Them
Reminiscences of John P. Meadows
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Cowboy, army guide, farmer, peace officer, and character in his own right, John P. Meadows arrived in New Mexico from Texas as a young man. During his life in the Southwest, he knew or worked for many well-known characters, including William “Billy the Kid” Bonney, Sheriff Pat Garrett, John Selman,...
Enchantment and Exploitation
The Life and Hard Times of a New Mexico Mountain Range. Revised and Expanded Edition.
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
First published in 1985, William deBuys’s Enchantment and Exploitation has become a New Mexico classic. It offers a complete account of the relationship between society and environment in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of northern New Mexico, a region unique in its rich combination of ecological...
by Walter Schmid
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2005
Walter Schmid, a member of Rommel's Afrika Korps, was one of hundreds of thousands of POWs interned in the United States during World War II. Drafted into the German army at twenty, he had fought for only five months when captured in Tunisia in May 1943. Schmid was sent first to POW camps in Oklahoma...
by Francisco Lomelí, A. Gabriel Meléndez
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Eusebio Chacón, born in Peñasco, New Mexico, is arguably one of the most significant and most overlooked figures in New Mexico's cultural heritage. He earned a law degree from Notre Dame and returned to practice law in Trinidad, Colorado. He served as a district attorney for Las Animas County,...
by France Scholes
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Studies of seventeenth-century New Mexico have largely overlooked the soldiers and frontier settlers who formed the backbone of the colony and laid the foundations of European society in a distant outpost of Spain's North American empire. This book, the final volume in the Coronado Historical Series,...
Marvels and Miracles in Late Colonial Mexico
Three Texts in Context
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
Miracles, signs of divine presence and intervention, have been esteemed by Christians, especially Catholic Christians, as central to religious belief. During the second half of the eighteenth century, Spain’s Bourbon dynasty sought to tighten its control over New World colonies, reform imperial...
The Pursuit of Ruins
Archaeology, History, and the Making of Modern Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
Famous for its majestic ruins, Mexico has gone to great lengths to preserve and display the remains of its pre-Hispanic past. The Pursuit of Ruins argues that the government effort to take control of the ancient remains took off in the late nineteenth century during the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz....
Sisters in Blue/Hermanas de azul
Sor María de Ágreda Comes to New Mexico/ Sor María de Ágreda viene a Nuevo México
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Sisters in Blue tells the story of two young women—one Spanish, one Puebloan—meeting across space and time. Sor María de Jesús de Ágreda, New Mexico’s famous Lady in Blue, is said to have traveled to New Mexico in the seventeenth century. Here Anna M. Nogar and Enrique R. Lamadrid bring her...
by Rosa Nissán
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
These two autobiographical novels lay bare the life journey of a Mexican Jewish woman reconciling herself with a Sephardic background, her parent's dictates, and her husband's and family's expectations. The only constant in her life is a need to find her own way, and the story of how she does so is...