University of New Mexico Press
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The Blood Poems
$18.95 Add to cartThe Blood Poems is one part bloodletting, one part healing, and one part sensuous celebration as Jessica Helen Lopez lays out what it means to be a strong brown woman, a single mother, and the kickass
- Series: The Albuquerque Poet Laureate
- Author: Lopez, Jessica Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0826363253
- Language: English
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A Field Guide to the Plants and Animals of the Middle Rio Grande Bosque
$45.00 Add to cartExtending from the spillway below Cochiti Dam, about fifty miles north of Albuquerque, to the headwaters of Elephant Butte Reservoir, near Truth or Consequences in the southern portion of New Mexico,
- Author: Cartron, Jean-Luc E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 391
- Publish Date: November 16 2008
- ISBN10: 0826342698
- 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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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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Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave
$24.95 Add to cartWhen the great environmental writer Edward Abbey died in 1989, four of his friends buried him secretly in a hidden desert spot that no one would ever find. The final resting place of the Thoreau of th
- Author: Prentiss, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0826355919
- 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 Read moreThis 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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A Guide to Plants of the Northern Chihuahuan Desert
$24.95 Read moreThe Chihuahuan desert is the second largest in North America and its northern, or United States, portion occupies southeastern Arizona, southern New Mexico, and Texas west of the Pecos River. Hot, dry
- Author: Dodson, Carolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 15 2012
- ISBN10: 0826350216
- Language: English
