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  • Frontier Stories

    A New Mexico Federal Writers' Project Book

    Between 1850 and 1912, the year New Mexico was granted statehood, the Territory of New Mexico was a wild and dangerous place. Homesteaders, cowboys, ranchers, sheepherders, buffalo hunters, prospectors, treasure hunters and railroad men pushing the borders of the western frontier met with resistance from man and animal alike. Native Americans, who had lived on the land defending their boundaries ... Read more

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  • Lost Treasures & Old Mines

    A New Mexico Federal Writers' Project Book

    Between 1850 and 1912, Territorial New Mexico was home to a diverse mix of peoples. Contesting with those who had lived in the region for thousands of years, an array of newcomers arrived: Hispanic settlers, Anglo homesteaders, ranchers, cowboys, sheepherders, merchants, railroad men and-perhaps its chief adventurers-treasure hunters and prospectors. "Lost Treasures & Old Mines" brims with stories ... Read more

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  • Stories from Hispano New Mexico

    A New Mexico Federal Writers' Project Book

    Edited by Ann Lacy, Anne Valley-Fox ...
    The story of Spanish settlement in New Mexico begins with Francisco Vasquez de Coronado's expedition into the territory in 1540-1542. The conquistadors were seeking new lands, gold, and converts to Christianity. In 1598, Juan de Onate's expedition of soldiers, settlers and indigenous Mexicans arrived, charged by the Crown to colonize the northern frontier of New Spain. Far from Mexico and the seat ... Read more

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  • Cowboys, Ranching & Cattle Trails

    A New Mexico Federal Writers' Project Book

    Was life on the range in the 1880s and 1890s anything like the hard riding, hard working, hard drinking shoot 'em up images that moviegoers saw in old Westerns? Yes-and then some, the authentic documents in this collection tell us. Cowboys, sheepherders, ranchers and all those around them in Territorial New Mexico were engaged in constant life-and-death struggles. They battled with each other and ... Read more

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  • Billy the Kid in Santa Fe: Wild West History, Outlaw Legends, and the City at the End of the Santa Fe Trail. A Non-Fiction Trilogy. Book One: Young Billy

    Billy the Kid in Santa Fe, #1

    Series Book 1 - Billy the Kid in Santa Fe
    Billy the Kid spent part of his youth in Santa Fe in the 1870s.~ What was New Mexico's territorial capital like in Billy's day?~ How did Santa Fe's frontier character and its Hispanic culture shape the development of this future desperado?~ What other residents did Billy encounter who would figure significantly in later chapters of his brief life?~ And how did Billy spend his days and his nights ... Read more

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  • Coronado's Children

    Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest

    Series Book 3 - Barker Texas History Center Series
    "This is the best work ever written on hidden treasure, and one of the most fascinating books on any subject to come out of Texas." — Basic Texas BooksWritten in 1930, Coronado's Children was one of J. Frank Dobie's first books, and the one that helped gain him national prominence as a folklorist. In it, he recounts the tales and legends of those hardy souls who searched for buried treasure in the ... Read more

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  • Turbulent Taos

    by Den Galbraith ...
    Revolutions, native conspiracies and subsequent insurrections, filthy mountain men sleeping on the dirt and wrestling with grizzlies, radical priests, belligerent American soldiers, betrayal, violence, early forms of commerce, and other enthralling accounts are part of this small New Mexico town’s history. Complete with illustrations and archived photographs, “Turbulent Taos” is Den Galbraith’s ... Read more

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  • Mexico

    A Novel

    Pulitzer Prize–winning author James A. Michener, whose novels hurtle from the far reaches of history to the dark corners of the world, paints an intoxicating portrait of a land whose past and present are as turbulent, fascinating, and colorful as any other on Earth. When an American journalist travels to report on the upcoming duel between two great matadors, he is ultimately swept up in the ... Read more

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  • A Time to Stand

    The Epic of the Alamo

    by Walter Lord ...
    The #1 New York Times –bestselling author of The Miracle of Dunkirk tells the story of the Texans who fought Santa Anna's troops at the Battle of the Alamo."Probably the best of all Alamo accounts . . . a history which should last." — The New York Times Book ReviewLooking out over the walls of the whitewashed Alamo, sweltering ... ... Read more

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  • The Wild West

    History, myth & the making of America

    On 14 May 1804, one Captain Meriwether Lewis and his companion William Clark led a thirty-three-man expedition to the new lands of Louisiana. 8,000 miles and two years later, after rafting up the Missouri and crossing the Rocky Mountains, they reached the far side of the world, the Pacific Ocean.Fredrick Nolan explores the first US settlers of the American West, including the remarkable stories of ... Read more

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  • The Memory of Fire Trilogy

    Genesis, Faces and Masks, and Century of the Wind

    Series series Memory of Fire
    All three books in the American Book Award–winning Memory of Fire Trilogy available in a single volume for the first time.Eduardo Galeano's Memory of Fire Trilogy defies categorization—or perhaps creates its own. It is a passionate, razor-sharp, lyrical history of North and South America, from the birth of the continent's indigenous peoples through the end of the twentieth century. The three ... Read more

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  • Famous Sheriffs and Western Outlaws

    Incredible True Stories of Wild West Showdowns and Frontier Justice

    This in-depth collection, unchanged since the 1940s, tells of the most legendary heroes and villains of the Old West. Get swept back to a time when sheriffs did their best to keep order in a lawless land. Read about the likes of Tom Horn, the “Apache Kid,” “Bucky” O’Neill, Tom Nickson, and many more!Famous Sheriffs and Western Outlaws is a classic for everyone interested in history and what is was ... Read more

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