Offers a look at a migrant family, detailing their daily life and the struggles they endured to build an existence on the small opportunities they were given This autobiographical novel explores the life of a family of migrant workers living in California.

The CIRCUIT By Francisco Jimenez (THE CIRCUIT)

by Francisco Jimenez

Teen & Young Adult

University of New Mexico

Dancing Gods: Indian Ceremonials of New Mexico and Arizona

Politics & Social Sciences

Erna Fergusson

Social Sciences

Recounts the colorful history of stagecoach lines on the Santa Fe Trail during the height of overland traffic from 1850 to 1879.

First Mail West; Stagecoach Lines on the Santa Fe Trail

History

Taylor, Morris F.

Americas

Politics and Society in Mexico

Needler, Martin C.

The author said, "In writing this book my principal concern has been to determine the underlying causes of the hostilities that led to almost continuous warfare between the Navajo Indians and white colonizers of the province and territory of New Mexico. Inevitably, a corollary concern was with the treaties that punctuated the temporary lulls between periods of fighting. The effort has engaged the better part of eight years and a search of some thirty thousand documents found in Spanish, Mexican, and American archives.....Unfortunately, almost nothing exists today to document the Navajo side of the case.

Navajo wars; military campaigns, slave raids, and reprisals

McNitt, Frank

Indian Silver, Navaho and Pueblo Jewelers

Bedinger, Margery

The beautiful polished black and polychrome pottery of Santa Clara Pueblo is rivaled in design and execution only by that of its neighbor, San Ildefonso, among the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico. In recent years it has been sought by growing numbers of collectors and investor.  Santa Clara Pottery Today combines extensive historical research with the interviews granted by three Santa Clara potters. During the interviews, the author recorded and photographed each step—from clay pit to market—in the making of contemporary Santa Clara pottery. Collecting and preparing the clay, making slips and paints, modeling various kinds of vessels, sanding, smoothing, slipping, polishing, decorating, firing—all are described and illustrated so thoroughly that the reader can experiment with the Santa Clara techniques himself if he wishes.  Drawing on a variety of published and unpublished sources, the author also provides background on the evolution of Santa Clara pottery and identifies changes that have occurred in materials and techniques.

Santa Clara pottery today (Monograph series - School of American Research)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

LeFree, Betty

Antiques & Collectibles

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.\n"An interesting and welltold account of an important area, Philmont deserves a place on the Western book shelf."--Denver Post

Philmont: A History of New Mexico's Cimarron Country

Murphy, Lawrence R.

A novel set in the Hispanic community of New Mexico during the 1930s. Praised for its accurate description of the rituals of the Penitente Brotherhood, and of village life, This edition includes an informative Introduction by Maria Weigle.

Miguel of the bright mountain (A Zia book)

Otis, Raymond

Describes Navajo patterns, styles, and weaving materials as an aid to identification, and recounts how Navajo weavers have adapted to the times

Old Navajo rugs: Their development from 1900 to 1940

Rodee, Marian E.

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