Cultural Region/Southwest U.S.
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Los Arabes of New Mexico: Compadres from a Distant Land
$22.95 Add to cartAt the outset, Los Arabes (Arabic-speaking individuals) were peddlers, carrying a variety of wares that often included exotic items from the Holy Land. These skilled cross-cultural traders expected to
- Author: Ghattas, Monika White
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: November 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0865349118
- Language: English
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Antes: Stories from the Past, Rural Cuba, New Mexico 1769-1949
$24.95 Add to cartCuba, New Mexico, was first settled in 1769. Originally known as Nacimiento, it was located on the northwestern edge of the Spanish Colonial Empire. It was very isolated and the people who settled Cub
- Author: Cordova May, Esther V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: November 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0865348405
- Language: English
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The Mesilla Valley
$16.95 Add to cartThe Mesilla Valley in southern New Mexico is an oasis in the Chihuahuan desert. It has attracted people for hundreds of years to its bosques of cottonwood trees, its life giving water, and its opportu… [more below]
- Series: New Mexico Centennial History Series Book
- Author: Hunner, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: April 20 2008
- ISBN10: 0865346275
- Language: English
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The Chisholm Trail: Joseph McCoy’s Great Gamble Volume 3
$61.58 Add to cartOne hundred fifty years ago the McCoy brothers of Springfield, Illinois, bet their fortunes on Abilene, Kansas, then just a slapdash way station. Instead of an endless horizon of prairie grasses, the… [more below]
- Series: Public Lands History #3
- Author: Sherow, James E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: September 27 2018
- ISBN10: 0806160535
- Language: English
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Quanah Parker, Comanche Chief: Volume 6
$21.95 Add to cartThe son of white captive Cynthia Ann Parker, Quanah Parker rose from able warrior to tribal leader on the Comanche reservation. Between 1875 and his death in 1911, Quanah dealt with local Indian agent
- Series: Oklahoma Western Biographies #6
- Author: Hagan, William T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: December 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0806127724
- Language: English
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Indeh: The Apache Odyssey
$24.95 Add to cart“A fascinating account of Apache history and ethnography. All the narratives have been carefully chosen to illustrate important facets of the Apache experience. Moreover, they make very interesting re
- Author: Ball, Eve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: September 10 2018
- ISBN10: 0806121653
- Language: English
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Come An’ Get It: The Story of the Old Cowboy Cook
$21.95 Read moreCome an’ Get It was the most familiar and welcome call on the range era of the great trail drives following the Civil War. In this entertaining volume, Ramon F. Adams, author of the popular Western Wo
- Author: Adams, Ramon F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: May 12 1972
- ISBN10: 0806110139
- Language: English
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Ghost Towns of Arizona
$24.95 Add to cartArizona’s ghost towns exemplify man’s courage, tenacity, and perhaps even foolishness in his search for wealth. Inevitable by-products of the development of gold, silver, copper, and other mineral dep
- Author: Sherman, James E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: February 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0806108436
- Language: English
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The Negro Cowboys
$19.95 Add to cartMore than five thousand Negro cowboys joined the round-ups and served on the ranch crews in the cattleman era of the West. Lured by the open range, the chance for regular wages, and the opportunity to… [more below]
- Author: Durham, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: October 01 1983
- ISBN10: 0803265603
- Language: English
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The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days
$14.95 Add to cartJ. Frank Dobie, in his Guide to Life and Literature of the Old Southwest, has declared that “if all other books on trail-driving were destroyed, a reader could still get a just and authentic conceptio… [more below]
- Series: Bison Book S
- Author: Adams, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 397
- Publish Date: May 01 1964
- ISBN10: 0803250002
- Language: English
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Camp Verde
$24.99 Add to cartIn February 1864, a party of 17 men and two women left the security of the territorial capital at Prescott, Arizona, and headed east into the Verde Valley, homeland of the Yavapai and Apache. Drawn by… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Ayers, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 11 2010
- ISBN10: 0738579122
- Language: English
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New Mexico Chiles: History, Legend and Lore
$26.99 Add to cartTo some, chile might be considered a condiment, but in New Mexico it takes center stage. Going back four centuries, native tribes, Spanish missionaries, conquistadors and Anglos alike craved capsicum,… [more below]
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Urig, Kelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 20 2015
- ISBN10: 1626198640
- Language: English
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History of Arizona: A Captivating Guide to Historical Events and Facts You Should Know About the Grand Canyon State
$23.99 Add to cartDid you know that Arizona was the last of the contiguous states to be admitted into the Union?
Even being the last, Arizona’s rich history predates its statehood by centuries, and that can be hard to d
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: October 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1637169140
- Language: English
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New Mexico’s Railroads: A Historical Survey
$24.95 Add to cartThis is a railroad lover’s book. The steel, steam, and dreams of a century of railroading in New Mexico are captured in 200 photographs and a crisp text. From a bygone era of narrow-gauge lines to tod
- Author: Myrick, David F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: July 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0826311857
- Language: English
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Tombstone
$23.99 Add to cartTombstone sits less than 100 miles from the Mexico border in the middle of the picturesque Arizona desert and also squarely at the heart of America’s Old West. Silver was discovered nearby in 1878, an… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Eppinga, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 16 2003
- ISBN10: 0738520969
- Language: English
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The Journey Home: Some Words in the Defense of the American West
$24.00 Add to cartThe Journey Home ranges from the surreal cityscapes of Hoboken and Manhattan to the solitary splendor of the deserts and mountains of the Southwest. It is alive with ranchers, dam builders, kissing bu… [more below]
- Author: Abbey, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 30 1991
- ISBN10: 0452265622
- Language: English
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If You Love Me, You Will Do My Will
$26.99 Add to cartThis is a story of a vast cattle and oil fortune left hanging by the thread of a widow’s dying wish; a story of prodigious egos and ambitions competing for the fortune before the widow was even buried
- Author: Michaud, Stephen G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0393338630
- Language: English
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A Vaquero of the Brush Country: The Life and Times of John D. Young
$29.95 Add to cartThis true story of the Texas brush range and the first cowboys, as thrilling as any tale of fiction, has become a classic in Western literature. It is the story of the land where cattle by tens of tho
- Author: Young, John D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: August 01, 1999
- ISBN10: 0292787049
- Language: English
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Coronado’s Children: Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest
$16.95 Add to cartWritten in 1930, Coronado’s Children was one of J. Frank Dobie’s first books, and the one that helped gain him national prominence as a folklorist. In it, he recounts the tales and legends of those ha
- Series: Barker Texas History Center Series
- Author: Dobie, J. Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 01, 1978
- ISBN10: 0292710526
- Language: English
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The Island Poké Cookbook: Recipes Fresh from Hawaiian Shores, from Poke Bowls to Pacific Rim Fusion
$24.99 Add to cartThe Hawaiian people have a laid-back love of life, and Island Pok?’s restaurants committed to sharing this ethos and the authentic flavours from these shores in over 65 recipes.
Pok? (pronounced Po-Ke- Author: Gould-Porter, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1788794338
- Language: English
