University of New Mexico Press
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Curandero: A Life in Mexican Folk Healing
$17.95 Add to cartEliseo Torres, known as “Cheo,” grew up in the Corpus Christi area of Texas and knew, firsthand, the Mexican folk healing practiced in his home and neighborhood. Later in life, he wanted to know more
- Author: Torres, Eliseo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: April 15 2005
- ISBN10: 082633640X
- Language: English
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Edge of Taos Desert: An Escape to Reality
$27.95 Add to cartIn 1917 Mabel Sterne, patron of the arts and spokeswoman for the New York avant-garde, came to the Southwest seeking a new life. This autobiographical account, long out-of-print, of her first few mont
- Author: Luhan, Mabel Dodge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: April 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0826309712
- Language: English
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Monte Walsh
$24.95 Add to cartOriginally published in 1963, Monte Walsh continues to delight readers as a Western classic and popular favorite. The novel explores the cowboy lives of Monte Walsh and Chet Rollins as they carouse, r
- Author: Schaefer, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: August 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0826358578
- Language: English
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The Day the Sun Rose Twice: The Story of the Trinity Site Nuclear Explosion, July 16, 1945
$21.95 Add to cartWinner of the Western History Association’s Robert G. Athearn Award for outstanding book on the twentieth-century American West
Just before dawn on July 16, 1945, the world’s first nuclear bomb was det
- Series: Story of the Trinity Site Nuclear Explosion, July 16, 1945
- Author: Szasz, Ferenc Morton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 245
- Publish Date: July 05 1984
- ISBN10: 082630768X
- Language: English
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The Education of Little Tree
$24.95 Add to cartThe Education of Little Tree has been embedded in controversy since the revelation that the autobiographical story told by Forrest Carter was a complete fabrication. The touching novel, which has entr
- Author: Carter, Forrest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: August 31 2001
- ISBN10: 0826328083
- Language: English
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Crosses of Iron: The Tragic Story of Dawson, New Mexico, and Its Twin Mining Disasters
$21.95 Add to cartIn October 1913, 261 miners and two rescuers died when a massive explosion ripped through a mine operated by Phelps, Dodge & Company in Dawson, New Mexico. Ten years later, a second blast claimed the … [more below]
- Author: Pappas, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0826365280
- Language: English
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The Witches of Abiquiu: The Governor, the Priest, the Genizaro Indians, and the Devil
$24.95 Read moreThe little-studied witchcraft trial that took place at Abiquiu, New Mexico, between 1756 and 1766 is the centerpiece of this book. The witchcraft outbreak took place less than a century after the Pueb
- Author: Ebright, Malcolm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: August 16 2006
- ISBN10: 0826320325
- Language: English
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Serafina’s Stories
$19.95 Read moreNew Mexico’s master storyteller creates a southwestern version of the Arabian Nights in this fable set in seventeenth-century Santa Fe. In January 1680 a dozen Pueblo Indians are charged with conspiri
- Author: Anaya, Rudolfo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0826335705
- Language: English
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A Spy’s Guide to Santa Fe and Albuquerque
$19.95 Add to cartWhen thinking of New Mexico, few Americans think spy-vs.-spy intrigue, but in fact, to many international intelligence operatives, the state’s name is nearly synonymous with espionage, and Santa Fe is
- Author: Held, E. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: January 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0826349358
- Language: English
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As We See It: Conversations with Native American Photographers
$34.95 Add to cartIn As We See It, Suzanne Newman Fricke invites readers to explore the work and careers of ten contemporary Native American photographers: Jamison Banks, Anna Hoover, Tom Jones, Larry McNeil, Shelley N… [more below]
- Author: Fricke, Suzanne Newman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0826364918
- Language: English
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Nine Years Among the Indians, 1870-1879: The Story of the Captivity and Life of a Texan Among the Indians
$24.95 Add to cartHere is a genuine Little Big Man story, with all the color, sweep, and tragedy of a classic American western. It is the tale of Herman Lehmann, a captive of the Apaches on the Southern Plains of Texas
- Author: Lehmann, Herman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 235
- Publish Date: May 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0826314171
- Language: English
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Singing to the Plants: A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism in the Upper Amazon
$34.95 Add to cartThis accessible study of ayahuasca shamanism introduces its ritual practices including healers’ spiritual relationships with the native plants used in its ceremonies.
- Author: Beyer, Stephan V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: June 30 2010
- ISBN10: 0826347304
- Language: English
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Healing with Herbs and Rituals: A Mexican Tradition
$19.95 Read moreHealing 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, “Fo
- Author: Torres, Eliseo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 30 2006
- ISBN10: 0826339611
- Language: English
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Awesome Arizona: 200 Amazing Facts about the Grand Canyon State
$16.95 Add to cartWhich state has the most national monuments? Where in America can you find one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World? Where is the largest contiguous forest of ponderosa pine? In Awesome Arizona, … [more below]
- Author: Naylor, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0826364578
- Language: English
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Red or Green: New Mexico Cuisine
$16.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2008 New Mexico Book Award for Best Cookbook
Chile is the heart and soul of New Mexican cuisine and in restaurants across the state visitors are asked, “Red or green?” Diners have strong
- Author: Casey, Clyde
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0826354157
- Language: English
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The Ecology of Herbal Medicine: A Guide to Plants and Living Landscapes of the American Southwest
$24.95 Add to cartThe Ecology of Herbal Medicine introduces botanical medicine through an in-depth exploration of the land, presenting a unique guide to plants found across the American Southwest. An accomplished herba
- Author: Saville, Dara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0826362176
- Language: English
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The Writer’s Portable Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life, Second Edition
$24.95 Add to cartDesigned to mentor writers at all levels, from beginning to quite advanced, The Writer’s Portable Mentor offers a wealth of insight and crafting models from the author’s twenty-plus years of teaching
- Author: Long, Priscilla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 15 2018
- ISBN10: 082636005X
- Language: English
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The Education of Little Tree
$19.95 Add to cartThe Education of Little Tree has been embedded in controversy since the revelation that the autobiographical story told by Forrest Carter was a complete fabrication. The touching novel, which has entr
- Author: Carter, Forrest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: August 31 2001
- ISBN10: 0826328091
- Language: English
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The House at Otowi Bridge: The Story of Edith Warner and Los Alamos
$17.95 Add to cartThis is the story of Edith Warner, who lived for more than twenty years as a neighbor to the Indians of San Ildefonso Pueblo, near Los Alamos, New Mexico. She was a remarkable woman, a friend to every
- Series: Zia Books
- Author: Church, Peggy Pond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 159
- Publish Date: May 01 1973
- ISBN10: 0826302815
- Language: English
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The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child
$16.95 Add to cartAfter dark in a Mexican border town, a father holds open a hole in a wire fence as his wife and two small boys crawl through.
So begins life in the United States for many people every day. And so begin
- Author: Jiménez, Francisco
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: October 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0826317979
- Language: English
