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The house at Otowi Bridge: The Story of Edith Warner and Los Alamos (Zia Books)
By Peggy Pond Church. 1960
This 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 of everyone who knew her, from her Indian companion Tilano, who was an elder of San Ildefonso, to Niels Bohr, Robert Oppenheimer, and the other atomic scientists who work at Los Alamos during World War IIRiata and spurs: the story of a lifetime spent in the saddle as cowboy and ranger
By Charles A. Siringo, Gifford Pinchot. 2004
Siringo (1855-1928) was one of Santa Fe, New Mexico's most famous residents. This fascination autobiography reads more like fiction than…
real life. Using Pat Garrett as a reference to become a Pinkerton detective, Siringo worked cases all over the West even infiltrating Butch Cassidy's outlaw bandTo hell on a fast horse: Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the epic chase to justice in the Old West
By Mark Lee Gardner, Mark L Gardner. 2010
Western historian Gardner, delivers a dual biography documenting Sheriff Pat Garrett's hunt for the iconic outlaw Billy the Kid. The…
author provides background on where the Kid came from and how he became a notorious outlaw, at least as far as is reliably known. He also tells of Pat Garrett, the sheriff who tracked Billy down, arrested him, and later, after a brazen and bloody escape on April 28, 1881, gunned down the Kid in Ft. Sumner, New Mexico on July 14, 1881The chile chronicles: tales of a New Mexico harvest
By Carmella Padilla, Jack Parsons. 1997
New Mexico is the largest producer of chile in the United States. This book traces chile from its South American…
origins to its development as an agricultural mainstay through its incarnation as the basis for high-tech chile science. In New Mexico however, chile is about pungency, taste, texture, and color, but more than anything else, chile is about cultureThe Ioway in Missouri (Missouri Heritage Readers Ser. #1)
By Greg Olson. 2008
Focusing on the Ioways' role in Missouri's colonial and early statehood periods, Olson describes Ioway creation stories and oral traditions;…
farming and hunting practices; relations with neighboring tribes, incoming white settlers, and the U. S. Government; and challenges to their way of life and surviving as a peopleLewis and Clark in Missouri
By Ann Rogers. 2002
Lewis and Clark, spent five months in the St. Louis area preparing for the expedition that would go up the…
Missouri river to the Pacific Ocean. It took them ten weeks to cross the six hundred miles of the Louisiana Purchase that was the future state of Missouri. This book covers that part of their journeyPrairie smoke (Borealis)
By Melvin R Gilmore. 1987
Fifty-eight traditional stories from the Pawnee, Sioux, Hidatsa, Mandan, Arikara, and Omaha Indians which describe the customs, way of life,…
and ties to the land of the first peoples of the Plains. First published in 1929Among the Sioux of Dakota: eighteen months' experience as an Indian agent, 1869-70
By D. C. Poole. 1988
Memoir of the Brule and Oglala bands of the Sioux's first attempt at reservation life. Depicts the daily life at…
the agency and provides a record of Sioux customs and beliefs. First published in 1881Reapers of the dust: a prairie chronicle
By Lois Phillips Hudson. 1984
Reminiscences of the author's early life in Wyoming and North Dakota and, when the dust storms drove them west, the…
family's existence as migrant pickers near Seattle. Despite drought, depression, changing schools and the other uncertainties of life, the child was not without hope or securityMontana for kids: the story of our state
By Allen Jones, Allen Morris Jones. 2018
Montana women from the ground up: passionate voices in agriculture & land conservation (American Heritage Ser.)
By Kristine E. Ellis, Kristine Ellis. 2018
Short essays from the Montana Department of Natural Resources oral history project about Montana ranch women. The women discuss the…
joys and difficulties of ranch life, their love of the land, and their contributions to land conservationThey left their tracks: recollections of 60 years as a Bob Marshall Wilderness outfitter
By Howard Copenhaver. 1990
A wilderness outfitter and a guide in Montana's famous Bob Marshall Wilderness for more than fifty years, Howard Copenhaver recounts…
tales of his outfitting experiences. For high school and adult readersRed light women of the Rocky Mountains
By Jan MacKell, Jan MacKell Collins. 2009
This is a history on the presence of prostitutes in the Rocky Mountains and the American West in the latter…
1800s and early 1900s. During this time, the area was mostly in the early stages of its development. Yet the areas were settled enough and populated enough to support the prostitutes' trade. Attitudes changed toward prostitutes as increased development and new waves of population moved in. Some violenceThree roads to Magdalena: coming of age in a Southwest borderland, 1890-1990
By David Wallace Adams. 2016
At the intersection of memory, myth, and history, this book asks what it was like to be a child in…
a land of ethnic and cultural boundaries. The answer, as close to all the stories as one might hope to get, captures the diverse, ever-changing experience of a Southwest community defined by cultural borders and the nature and role of children in defending and crossing those bordersGringo lessons: twenty years of terror in Taos
By Bill Whaley. 2015
A tale of modern adventure about a young man, experiencing the Taos, New Mexico culture from 1966 to 1987, where…
he met the community: skiers, La Gente, los vatos locos, Chicano activists and their Spanish contemporaries, the artists, drug dealers, fellow soldiers, tempting sirens, the occasional movie star, and a host of con artists. Eventually, abandoning Taos and returning to university, only to return and publish Horse Fly, a monthly journal about politics and art for another decadeAt the end of the Santa Fe Trail
By Blandina Segale. 1932
At the End of the Santa Fe Trail is Sister Blandina Segale's account of her life in the Southwestern U.S.…
from 1872 to 1892. Sister Blandina (1850-1941) worked with the poor, the sick, immigrants, prisoners, and Native Americans while in Trinidad, Colorado, and in Santa Fe and Albuquerque, New Mexico. The book is based on her journal and on the letters she exchanged with her sister Justina, also a religious sister in OhioNorth of Santa Fe, the New Mexico landscape is framed by four high mountains. Sacred to the Tewa Pueblo Indians,…
the four peaks are in different bureaucratic and cultural zones, resulting in each peak attracting visitors but few non-Indian travelers visiting more than one of the mountains. Harmer's chronicle of climbing all four mountains in one summer offers a unique view of a forest unlike any in the world. Outdoor enthusiasts and armchair travelers should enjoy Harmer's account of his back packing adventure, while discovering the realities of complicated cultural legacies, ecological challenges, and human foiblesNew Mexico's stormy history: true stories of early Spanish colonial settlers and the Mestas/Maestas families
By Elmer Eugene Maestas, Peggy Herrington. 2016
Here is a family genealogy that reads as a generational New Mexico history through the lens of a typical long-time…
New Mexico family. Author Maestas has gone beyond a "family genealogy" through the connection of the Mestas/Maestas family to New Mexico history. From the first settlements, the Pueblo Revolt, the Return from Exile to the "Entrada," to modern times, a Mestas or a descendant has been there to tell the storyVolver: a persistence of memory
By Antonio Márquez, Antonio C. Márquez. 2017
Born into a family of Mexican immigrants on the eve of World War II in El Paso, the author has…
experienced many cultures, countries, and classes. He recounts his life from childhood memories to the turbulent events of his manhood. Marquez recalls the impact of immigration and war on his family; his experiences of gang conflict in El Paso and Los Angeles; enlisting in the Marine Corps; his activism in the civil rights movement, the antiwar movement of the Vietnam era, and the Crusade for Justice; his travels to crisis-ridden Latin American countries; and his becoming a professor when universities hired few ChicanosBush League boys: the postwar legends of baseball in the American Southwest
By Toby Smith. 2014
This loving tribute to the defunct minor league teams of New Mexico and west Texas resurrects a forgotten period of…
baseball history. Through oral histories of players, umpires, fans, sportswriters, and team officials, Toby Smith brings to life the West Texas New Mexico League, the Longhorn League, the Southwestern League, and the Sophomore League from 1946 to 1961, when the last of them folded. Star players Joe Bauman and Bob Crues get special attention, along with assorted brawls, a fatal beaning incident, home runs, and marriages conducted at home plate