University of New Mexico Press
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Water for the People: The Acequia Heritage of New Mexico in a Global Context
$29.95 Add to cartWater for the People features twenty-five essays by world-renowned acequia scholars and community members that highlight acequia culture, use, and history in New Mexico, northern Mexico, Chile, Peru, … [more below]
- Series: New Century Gardens and Landscapes of the American Southwest
- Author: Lamadrid, Enrique R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0826364632
- Language: English
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Diné Bahane’: The Navajo Creation Story
$29.95 Add to cartThis is the most complete version of the Navajo creation story to appear in English since Washington Matthews’ Navajo Legends of 1847. Zolbrod’s new translation renders the power and delicacy of the o
- Series: Navajo Creation Story
- Author: Zolbrod, Paul G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: December 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0826310435
- Language: English
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New Mexico: An Interpretive History
$19.95 Add to cartFor all who love New Mexico, and for those who aspire to know the state, this book is a graceful and compelling summary of what has made the Land of Enchantment its distinctive self. Originally publis
- Series: Interpretive History
- Author: Simmons, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 221
- Publish Date: August 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0826311105
- Language: English
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Mac McCloud’s Five Points: Photographing Black Denver, 1938-1975
$29.95 Add to cartThis stunning collection of images celebrates the remarkable career of Burnis “Mac” McCloud, Denver’s premiere Black photographer between 1950 and 1980. His remarkable photographs, focused on Denver’s… [more below]
- Author: Wyckoff, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0826365418
- Language: English
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Remington Army and Navy Revolvers 1861-1888
$65.00 Add to cartImmediately following the Civil War, the United States Ordnance Department reported it had purchased 128,575 Remington revolvers during the conflict. During the Franco-Prussian War in 1870-71, Samuel
- Author: Ware, Donald L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 16 2007
- ISBN10: 0826342809
- Language: English
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The Gardens of Los Poblanos
$34.95 Add to cartIn The Gardens of Los Poblanos, landscape designer and garden writer Judith Phillips recounts the history of these world-renowned gardens and demonstrates the ways in which the farm’s owners, designer… [more below]
- Series: New Century Gardens and Landscapes of the American Southwest
- Author: Phillips, Judith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0826365221
- Language: English
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Mysterious New Mexico: Miracles, Magic, and Monsters in the Land of Enchantment
$24.95 Add to cartNew Mexico’s twin traditions of the scientific and the supernatural meet for the first time in this long-overdue book by a journalist known for investigating the unexplained. Strange tales of ghosts,
- Author: Radford, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: August 15 2014
- ISBN10: 0826354505
- Language: English
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In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems, 1961-1991
$19.95 Add to cart“In the Presence of the Sun presents 30 years of selected works by [N. Scott] Momaday, the well-known Southwest Native American novelist. His unadorned poetry, which recounts fables and rituals of the
- Author: Momaday, N. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 169
- Publish Date: October 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0826348165
- Language: English
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Cuentos de Cuanto Hay: Tales from Spanish New Mexico
$24.95 Add to cartIn the summer of 1931, folklorist J. Manuel Espinosa traveled throughout northern New Mexico asking Spanish-speaking residents for cuentos de cuanto hay, tales of olden times. Espinosa’s transcription
- Author: Hayes, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 239
- Publish Date: August 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0826319289
- Language: Spanish
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The Rounders
$33.25 Add to cart“It is a book to read if you are in need of a good laugh or if you are tired of reading cowboy novels where there are no cows and where the cowhands never stop waiting around the local saloon for a fi
- Author: Evans, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: June 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0826349137
- Language: English
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In the Bear’s House
$26.60 Add to cart“Let me say at the outset that this book is not about Bear (he would be spoken of in the singular and masculine, capitalized and without an article), or it is only incidentally about him. I am less in
- Author: Momaday, N. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0826348408
- Language: English
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The Powwow Highway
$19.95 Add to cartPhilbert Bono and Buddy Red Bird are about to prove that the spirit of the great warriors is still alive and kicking. Their “war pony,” a burned-out, rusty 1964 Buick LeSabre, has left a trail of dust
- Author: Seals, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 15 2014
- ISBN10: 0826354890
- Language: English
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Girl Flees Circus
$19.95 Add to cartWhen nineteen-year-old aviatrix Katie Burke crash lands her biplane on the only street in No Name, New Mexico, her arrival changes her life and the lives of everyone around her. As Katie and her craft
- Series: Lynn and Lynda Miller Southwest Fiction
- Author: Smith, C. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0826364071
- Language: English
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The Annual Big Arsenic Fishing Contest!
$19.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2017 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for Best BookWinner of the 2017 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for Fiction – OtherOn the surface this book spins a fisherman’s tall tale about a ribald
- Author: Nichols, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0826363962
- Language: English
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Alburquerque
$19.95 Read more“Alburquerque is a rich and tempestuous book, full of love and compassion, the complex and exciting skullduggery of politics, and the age-old quest for roots, identity, family. . . . There is a marvel
- Author: Anaya, Rudolfo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: February 16 2006
- ISBN10: 0826340598
- Language: English
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The Great Taos Bank Robbery: And Other True Stories
$17.95 Add to cartThis classic collection of nonfiction essays about life in New Mexico by the great Tony Hillerman remains a must read for anyone looking to understand the state’s unique charm. The vivid pieces in The… [more below]
- Author: Hillerman, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0826365450
- Language: English
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Tierra Amarilla: Stories of New Mexico / Cuentos de Nuevo Mexico
$26.60 Add to cartA 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 th
- Series: Pas? Por Aqu? the Neuvomexicano Literary Heritage
- Author: Ulibarr?, Sabine R
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: July 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0826314384
- Language: Spanish
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Sacred Smokes
$19.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2018 Tillie Olsen Award for Creative Writing from the Working-Class Studies Association
Selected for the Recommended Fiction Book List of the 2019 In the Margins Book Award
Growing up in a- Author: Van Alst, Theodore C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0826359906
- Language: English
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Can?ula: Snapshots of a Girlhood En La Frontera, Updated Edition
$19.95 Add to cartWinner of the Premio Aztl n Literary Prize
Can cula–the dog days–a particularly intense part of the summer when most cotton is harvested in South Texas. In Norma Cant ‘s fictionalized memoir of Lared
- Author: Cantu, Norma Elia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 30 2015
- ISBN10: 0826356192
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of Los Alamos: Selected Writings of Edith Warner (Expanded)
$26.60 Add to cartEdith Warner (1893-1951), who lived by the Rio Grande at the Otowi Switch in northern New Mexico, has become a legendary figure owing largely to her portrayal in two books: The Woman at Otowi Crossing
- Author: Warner, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: May 16 2008
- ISBN10: 0826319785
- Language: English
