University of New Mexico Press
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Voices of the Buffalo Soldier: Records, Reports, and Recollections of Military Life and Service in the West
$24.95 Add to cartThe Buffalo Soldiers were African Americans who served in the Regular Army between the Civil War and World War I and fought in some of the most difficult wars against western Indians. Examining their
- Author: Schubert, Frank N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: January 16 2009
- ISBN10: 0826323103
- Language: English
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The Lipan Apaches: People of Wind and Lightning
$27.95 Add to cartDespite the significant role they have played in Texas history for nearly four hundred years, the Lipan Apaches remain among the least studied and least understood tribal groups in the West. Considere
- Author: Britten, Thomas A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0826345875
- Language: English
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Creek Indian Medicine Ways: The Enduring Power of Mvskoke Religion
$29.27 Add to cartCalled the Mvskoke in their language, the Creek Indians of Oklahoma continue to practice traditional medicine. In Creek Indian Medicine Ways, David Lewis, a full-blood Mvskoke and practicing medicine
- Author: Lewis, David Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: August 16 2008
- ISBN10: 0826323685
- Language: English
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Turn Left at the Sleeping Dog: Scripting the Santa Fe Legend, 1920-1955
$24.95 Add to cartAnglos have been coming to Santa Fe for centuries, and early in the last century the city’s beauty and exotic cultural mix became particularly attractive to artistic immigrants looking for freedom fro
- Author: Farge, John Pen La
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0826320155
- Language: English
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Mayordomo: Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New Mexico
$19.95 Add to cartIrrigation 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
- Series: Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New Mexico
- Author: Crawford, Stanley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 243
- Publish Date: July 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0826314457
- Language: English
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Words Like Love: Poems
$18.95 Add to cartWith beauty and ease, Winder explores emotion and thought through the poems featured in this debut collection.
- Author: Winder, Tanaya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: February 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0826362613
- Language: English
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Intimate Memories: The Autobiography of Mabel Dodge Luhan
$24.95 Read moreMabel Dodge Luhan’s Intimate Memories offers the brilliantly edited memoirs of one woman’s rebellion against “the whole ghastly social structure” under which the United States had been buried since th
- Author: Rudnick, Lois Palken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: July 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0826321062
- Language: English
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New Mexico Cuisine: Recipes from the Land of Enchantment
$16.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2010 New Mexico Book Award for Best Cookbook
Since he first traveled to New Mexico in the 1960s, Clyde Casey has been in love with New Mexican cuisine and has explored its evolution from
- Author: Casey, Clyde
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 193
- Publish Date: November 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0826354173
- Language: English
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The Spell of New Mexico
$16.95 Add to cartA rich gathering of essays that evoke the unique and mysterious appeal New Mexico has had for some of the twentieth century’s best-known writers. Included are selections by Mary Austin, Oliver La Farg
- Author: Hillerman, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 113
- Publish Date: May 01 1984
- ISBN10: 0826307760
- Language: English
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Indian Rock Art of the Southwest
$49.95 Add to cartThis comprehensive view of carvings and paintings on stone by Native Americans from 200 B.C. through the nineteenth century surveys the rock art of Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, northern Mexico, and west
- Series: School of American Research Southwest Indian Arts
- Author: Schaafsma, Polly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 393
- Publish Date: July 01 1986
- ISBN10: 0826309135
- Language: English
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Tucumcari Tonite!: A Story of Railroads, Route 66, and the Waning of a Western Town
$24.95 Add to cartWinner of the Southwest Book Award
Tucumcari, New Mexico, was founded in 1901 by the Rock Island Railroad and soon had major railroad lines converging there from Chicago, Los Angeles, and Memphis as
- Author: Stratton, David H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: April 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0826363393
- Language: English
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Public Waters: Lessons from Wyoming for the American West
$29.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2022 Spur Award for Best First Nonfiction Book from Western Writers of America
Wyoming’s colorful story of water management illuminates the powerful forces that impact water use in the ru- Author: MacKinnon, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0826362419
- Language: English
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Georgia O’Keeffe: A Life Well Lived
$39.95 Add to cartBronze Winner for Photography in 2020 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards
Georgia O’Keeffe remains an icon, continuing to inspire generations to break barriers and embrace the natural world in both
- Author: Varon, Malcolm
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0826362001
- Language: English
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The Devil’s Butcher Shop: The New Mexico Prison Uprising
$24.95 Add to cart“A modern horror story told in graphic detail. Morris’s meticulous documentation traces prison corruption . . . proving the tragedy could have been avoided. I recommend this book without reservation.”
- Author: Morris, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: January 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0826310621
- Language: English
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Commissions Y Corridos: Poems
$18.95 Add to cartHakim Bellamy’s latest collection rings with the same power and grace as the people he lauds within its pages, including Nikki Giovanni and Martin Luther King Jr. He celebrates Albuquerque and New Mex
- Series: The Albuquerque Poet Laureate
- Author: Bellamy, Hakim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0826363172
- Language: English
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Apache Voices Their Stories of Survival as Told to Eve Ball
$24.95 Add to cartIn the 1940s and 1950s, long before historians fully accepted oral tradition as a source, Eve Ball (1890-1984) was taking down verbatim the accounts of Apache elders who had survived the army’s campai
- Author: Robinson, Sherry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0826321631
- Language: English
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Rain Scald: Poems
$25.27 Add to cartIn this innovative debut collection, Tacey M. Atsitty employs traditional, lyric, and experimental verse to create an intricate landscape she invites readers to explore. Presented in three sections, T
- Series: Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry
- Author: Atsitty, Tacey M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: February 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0826358675
- Language: English
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The Fourth World of the Hopis: The Epic Story of the Hopi Indians as Preserved in Their Legends and Traditions
$24.95 Add to cartHere the noted folklorist brings together traditional accounts of epic events and adventures in the life of Hopi clans and villages, from legendary to historical times. The setting of these various ad
- Author: Courlander, Harold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 239
- Publish Date: October 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0826310117
- Language: English
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The Cherokee Nation: A History
$24.95 Read moreThe Cherokee Nation is one of the largest and most important of all the American Indian tribes. The first history of the Cherokees to appear in over four decades, this is also the first to be endorsed
- Author: Conley, Robert J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 279
- Publish Date: February 16 2008
- ISBN10: 0826332358
- Language: English
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G-Dog and the Homeboys: Father Greg Boyle and the Gangs of East Los Angeles
$24.95 Add to cartFather Gregory J. Boyle, SJ, is a native of Los Angeles, a Jesuit priest, and founder of Homeboy Industries, an economic development and jobs program begun in 1988 for at-risk and gang-involved youth.
- Author: Fremon, Celeste
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: January 09 2009
- ISBN10: 0826344852
- Language: English
