Perhaps more than any other influence Healing Herbs of the Upper Rio Grande helped keep the herbal traditions of the Spanish Southwest alive and well. Moore comments that he has observed well used copies of this book in many adobe village homes, sometimes the only book besides the Bible. Mrs. Curtin lived and worked with the Spanish curanderas and abuelas (folk healers and elders), and Native Americans, learning herbal medicine first-hand from both traditions. In this new edition Moore has classified Latin names, added vital information on current usage and sources, added remedy and general indexes, and has offered alternative views on a number of plants. Written with precise botanical knowledge, this book is the seminal work on tradition home remedies of the Southwest.

Healing Herbs of the Upper Rio Grande: Traditional Medicine of the Southwest

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Curtin, L.S.M.

Alternative Medicine

Western Edge

A new edition of the classic novel of post-WWII cowboys ranching in the Ho Lo country of north eastern New Mexico. The death of Evan's best friend, Big Boy Hitson by his brother who filled him with five .38 slugs, inspired him to write The Hi Lo Country. The story centers on a tumultuous and tangled love triangle, unrequited love, and adultery. It laments the coming of the pick up truck replacing horses and big ranching squeezing out independent outfits. Full of drama as well as the humor and wild stories of characters living in the Hi Lo country. The book was made into a major motion picture in 1998 starring Woody Harrelson, Penolpe Cruz in her first major American film, and Billy Crudup.

Hi Lo Country, The, Cover may vary

Literature & Fiction

Evans, Max

Genre Fiction

El Hermano takes place during the forty days of Lent in 1928 as José and his cousins conspire to spy on one of the brotherhood’s secret rituals to see what lies ahead for them as novices. José knows his time to join the cofradías (of which his own father is Hermano Mayor) is near, but having seen Hermanos who appear to be in pain after a night spent at the morada, a meeting house and chapel, and having heard stories about those who even died in the past because of whatever went on within the sacred structure, his fear guides him to join his cousins in their clandestine scheme. Little do they know, certain New Mexican legends conspire against them; La Muerte , Saint Death, warns José to leave his future unknown, a ball of fire thought to be a witch crosses their path, and even la Llorona, ghost of the Weeping Woman, and el Diablo, the Devil make an appearance.

El Hermano

Baca, Carmen

United States

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