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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book New Mexico, the Last Great West written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bruce A. Glasrud
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826353029
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)
Download or read book African American History in New Mexico written by Bruce A. Glasrud and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although their total numbers in New Mexico were never large, blacks arrived with Spanish explorers and settlers and played active roles in the history of the territory and state. Here, Bruce Glasrud assembles the best information available on the themes, events, and personages of black New Mexico history. The contributors portray the blacks who accompanied Cabeza de Vaca, Coronado and de Vargas and recount their interactions with Native Americans in colonial New Mexico. Chapters on the territorial period examine black trappers and traders as well as review the issue of slavery in the territory and the blacks who accompanied Confederate troops and fought in the Union army during the Civil War in New Mexico. Eventually blacks worked on farms and ranches, in mines, and on railroads as well as in the military, seeking freedom and opportunity in New Mexico’s wide open spaces. A number of black towns were established in rural areas. Lacking political power because they represented such a small percentage of New Mexico’s population, blacks relied largely on their own resources and networks, particularly churches and schools.
Author : Ray John de Aragón
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614237018
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Hidden History of Spanish New Mexico written by Ray John de Aragón and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-21 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Mexico's Spanish legacy has informed the cultural traditions of one of the last states to join the union for more than four hundred years, or before the alluring capital of Santa Fe was founded in 1610. The fame the region gained from artist Georgia O'Keefe, writers Lew Wallace and D.H. Lawrence and pistolero Billy the Kid has made New Mexico an international tourist destination. But the Spanish annals also have enriched the Land of Enchantment with the factual stories of a superhero knight, the greatest queen in history, a saintly gent whose coffin periodically rises from the depths of the earth and a mysterious ancient map. Join author Ray John de Aragón as he reveals hidden treasure full of suspense and intrigue.
Author : Henry Howe
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Historical Collections of the Great West written by Henry Howe and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Lee Kerby
Publisher : Westernlore Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Confederate Invasion of New Mexico and Arizona, 1861-1862 written by Robert Lee Kerby and published by Westernlore Publications. This book was released on 1958 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An excellent work on the Confederate invasion of New Mexico and Arizona, which if successful, would have led to an attempt to seize the gold mines of Colorado & California.
Author : David V. Holtby
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806187867
Total Pages : 567 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Forty-Seventh Star written by David V. Holtby and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-09-28 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Mexico was ceded to the United States in 1848, at the end of the war with Mexico, but not until 1912 did President William Howard Taft sign the proclamation that promoted New Mexico from territory to state. Why did New Mexico’s push for statehood last sixty-four years? Conventional wisdom has it that racism was solely to blame. But this fresh look at the history finds a more complex set of obstacles, tied primarily to self-serving politicians. Forty-Seventh Star, published in New Mexico’s centennial year, is the first book on its quest for statehood in more than forty years. David V. Holtby closely examines the final stretch of New Mexico’s tortuous road to statehood, beginning in the 1890s. His deeply researched narrative juxtaposes events in Washington, D.C., and in the territory to present the repeated collisions between New Mexicans seeking to control their destiny and politicians opposing them, including Republican U.S. senators Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana and Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island. Holtby places the quest for statehood in national perspective while examining the territory’s political, economic, and social development. He shows how a few powerful men brewed a concoction of racism, cronyism, corruption, and partisan politics that poisoned New Mexicans’ efforts to join the Union. Drawing on extensive Spanish-language and archival sources, the author also explores the consequences that the drive to become a state had for New Mexico’s Euro-American, Nuevomexicano, American Indian, African American, and Asian communities. Holtby offers a compelling story that shows why and how home rule mattered—then and now—for New Mexicans and for all Americans.
Author : Max Evans
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ISBN 13 : 9780890134764
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book Making a Hand written by Max Evans and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on childhood memories, this picture book tells the story of a girl becoming an artist. Illustrated with paintings of Santa Fe in the early part of the twentieth century.
Author : F. Stanley
Publisher : Sunstone Press
ISBN 13 : 0865348154
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (653 download)
Download or read book The Civil War in New Mexico written by F. Stanley and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With limited money or free time, Father Stanley Francis Louis Crocchiola wrote and published 177 books and booklets pertaining to the southwest. He published this work after 19 years of researching the Civil War as the Volunteers of New Mexico lived and fought it.
Author : Joseph P. Sánchez
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806151137
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book New Mexico written by Joseph P. Sánchez and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the earliest days of Spanish exploration and settlement, New Mexico has been known for lying off the beaten track. But this new history reminds readers that the world has been beating paths to New Mexico for hundreds of years, via the Camino Real, the Santa Fe Trail, several railroads, Route 66, the interstate highway system, and now the Internet. This first complete history of New Mexico in more than thirty years begins with the prehistoric cultures of the earliest inhabitants. The authors then trace the state’s growth from the arrival of Spanish explorers and colonizers in the sixteenth century to the centennial of statehood in 2012. Most historians have made the territory’s admission to the Union in 1912 as the starting point for the state’s modernization. As this book shows, however, the transformation from frontier province to modern state began with World War II. The technological advancements of the Atomic Era, spawned during wartime, propelled New Mexico to the forefront of scientific research and pointed it toward the twenty-first century. The authors discuss the state’s historical and cultural geography, the economics of mining and ranching, irrigation’s crucial role in agriculture, and the impact of Native political activism and tribe-owned gambling casinos. New Mexico: A History will be a vital source for anyone seeking to understand the complex interactions of the indigenous inhabitants, Spanish settlers, immigrants, and their descendants who have created New Mexico and who shape its future.
Author : Dr. Walter Earl Pittman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614233292
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)
Download or read book New Mexico and the Civil War written by Dr. Walter Earl Pittman and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the New Mexico Territory was far distant from the main theaters of war, it was engulfed in the same violence and bloodshed as the rest of the nation. The Civil War in New Mexico was fought in the deserts and mountains of the huge territory, which was mostly wilderness, amid the continuing ancient wars against the wild Indian tribes waged by both sides. The armies were small, but the stakes were high: control of the Southwest. Retired lieutenant colonel and Civil War historian Dr. Walter Earl Pittman presents this concise history of New Mexico during the Civil War years from the Confederate invasion of 1861 to the Battles of Valverde and Glorieta to the end of the war.
Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1649741847
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (497 download)
Download or read book Death Comes for the Archbishop written by Willa Cather and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death Comes for the Archbishop is Willa Cather's best known novel. This epic, is a dream like, mythic story of a life lived simply in the southwestern desert. Father Jean Marie Latour is transferred to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. He finds a vast territory of hills, arroyos, and lonelness. Cather delivers a story of a simple life lived well and full in this her tour de force.
Author : Bonnie Christensen
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Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Red Lodge and the Mythic West written by Bonnie Christensen and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tracing the story of Red Lodge from the 1880s to the present, Christensen tells how a mining town managed to endure the vagaries of the West's unpredictable extractive-industries economy. She connects Red Lodge to a myriad of larger events and historical forces to show how national and regional influences have contributed to the development of local identities, exploring how and why westerners first rejected and then embraced "western" images, and how ethnicity, wilderness, and historic preservation became part of the identity that defined one town."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : William Cronon
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393072452
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West written by William Cronon and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-11-02 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Winner of the Bancroft Prize. "No one has written a better book about a city…Nature's Metropolis is elegant testimony to the proposition that economic, urban, environmental, and business history can be as graceful, powerful, and fascinating as a novel." —Kenneth T. Jackson, Boston Globe
Author : Henry Howe
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Great West written by Henry Howe and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adam Gamble
Publisher : Good Night Books
ISBN 13 : 1602193487
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Good Night New Mexico written by Adam Gamble and published by Good Night Books. This book was released on 2015-04-23 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In colorful detail, Good Night New Mexico explores the iconic cities of Albuquerque, Las Cruces, Silver City, Taos, and Santa Fe. Young readers discover the treasures of Carlsbad Caverns, White Sands National Monument, the Gila Cliff Dwellings, the International UFO Museum and Research Center, the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, and the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture. Also included are hot air ballooning, skiing, Mexican food, and desert life including the horny toad and roadrunner.
Author : Henry Howe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Historical Collections of the Great West written by Henry Howe and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lawrence R. Murphy
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826323456
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Philmont written by Lawrence R. Murphy and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2013-11-30 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the first comprehensive history of the Colfax County area of northeastern New Mexico. Best known today as the home of the Philmont Scout Ranch, where thousands of Boy Scouts from around the world gather every year, this beautiful country has a violent and varied past. Centering around the town of Cimarron, the region includes much of the vast Maxwell Land Grant, one of the largest pieces of land to be owned by one man in the history of the United States. Controversy over control of the land began in the sixteenth century with quarrels among rival American Indian tribes. Spanish and later American troops continued the bloodshed for centuries more. The culmination of the area’s history of violence was the notorious Colfax County War between homesteaders and landowners that began in 1875 and continued until the Supreme Court acted fifteen years later. A gold and silver rush lured prospectors to the Maxwell ranch and booming Elizabethtown in the 1860s. But by 1870 the supply of precious metals was almost exhausted, and today Elizabethtown is a ghost town. “An interesting and welltold account of an important area, Philmont deserves a place on the Western book shelf.”—Denver Post
