University of New Mexico Press
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The Great Taos Bank Robbery: And Other True Stories
$17.95 Read moreThis 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
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Curandero: A Life in Mexican Folk Healing
$17.95 Read moreEliseo 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 Read moreOriginally 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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Shane
$19.95 Read moreIn this true Western classic Jack Schaefer tells the story of a mysterious stranger who finds himself in the Wyoming Territory joining local homesteaders in their fight to keep their land and avoid th
- Author: Schaefer, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: June 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0826358411
- 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 Read moreThe 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 Read moreWhen 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 Read moreThis 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 Read moreWhich 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
