When Los Alamos Was a Ranch School

History

Church, Peggy Pond

Church, Fermor

Americas

Los Alamos Historical Society

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.

Los Alamos outdoors

Hoard, Dorothy

A guide to Bandelier National Monument

Travel

United States

Los Alamos: The First Forty Years

Lyon, Fern

Trail guide with historical, archaeological, and natural history notes for this scenic national monument next to Los Alamos.

Guide to Bandelier National Monument

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

Car trips in the Jemez Mountains north of Albuquerque explore old volcanoes, tuff cliffs, mountain meadows, stream-cut canyons, ghost towns, Indian ruins.

Exploring the Jemez Country

Pettitt, Roland

Lively 1946 documentation of construction of laboratory buildings, living quarters, utilities and other facilities for the people making the first atomic bomb. Includes facts, figures and memos about every aspect of civilian and military life from mess hall prices to schools, medical services, and recreation. Numerous historical photos.

Manhattan District History: Nonscientific Aspects of Los Alamos Project Y 1942 Through 1946

Edith C. Truslow

Los Alamos Outdoors

Dorothy Hoard

Sports & Outdoors

Spurred by patriotism, Eleanor (Jerry) Stone joined the Women's Army Corps in March 1944, and spent two years as a telephone operator at a top-secret laboratory in Los Alamos. Her glimpses of everyday life reveal the intensity of work in the laboratory, the sociability of the Tech area PX, the peculiaities of an ever-expanding telephone system, adventures with a trumpet-playing soldier (Arno Roensch, whom she later married), and relationships with scientists, military personnel, and others. Surrounded by fences, guards, and secrecy, she lived a "Life Within Limits." Personal photographs, and documents enhance this story of life during World war II.

Life Within Limits

Eleanor Jerry Roensch

Military

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.

Sentinels on Stone: The Petroglyphs of Los Alamos

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