<p>Los Alamos, though known primarily as the birthplace of the atomic bomb, is set in some of the Southwest's most magnificent country. Hoard, a naturalist and artist, has made this book much more than a hiking guide, including also the human and natural history of the area described in 24 delightful hikes.</p>

Los Alamos Outdoors

Dorothy Hoard

Sports & Outdoors

Los Alamos Historical Society

<p>This book not only documents the wealth of petroglyphs to be found in Los Alamos, but its authors provided sufficient documentation to have White Rock Canyon of the Rio Grande entered in the National Register of Historic Places.</p>

Sentinels on Stone: The Petroglyphs of Los Alamos

History

Americas

Los Alamos is squeezed into a small space. It is constrained on the south and east by the [Los Alamos National]Laboratory, on the north and west by the forest service. The town has nowhere to expand. It develops whatever land it can for residential, business, and recreational use. Prehistoric and historic sites have been swept away by the need to develop. Few town folk even know about these remnants of our past. Old roads survive because they are in locations seemingly unfit for any other use. They have inadvertently become treasures. With these words, Dorothy Hoard concludes a special glimpse into the history of the people who preceded the present-day residents of the Pajarito Plateau. They were Paleo-Indians, Spanish soldiers, missionaries, U.S. soldiers from Fort Marcy, lumbermen, sheepherders, homesteaders, ranchers, young students and masters, at an isolated school, and finally, scientists who took over the isolation to build the first atomic bomb. All have left their mark, and whether that influence is seen in still-visible wagon wheel ruts or a modern road clinging to the side of a canyon, each has a story to tell. Hoard tells that story through the eyes of one who knows and loves the land of which she speaks.

Historic Roads of Los Alamos (The Los Alamos Story, No. 7)

Los Alamos Historical Society Publications

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Los Alamos Outdoors

Sentinels on Stone: The Petroglyphs of Los Alamos

Historic Roads of Los Alamos (The Los Alamos Story, No. 7)