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Fremont F. Ellis, a famous landscape painter, was born in Virginia City, Montana in 1897. His father was a nomadic dentist and theater operator who traveled from the bustling gold towns of the...

El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the Royal Road of the Interior, was a 1,600-mile braid of trails that led from Mexico City, in the center of New Spain, to the provincial capital of New Mexico on...

A memoir of quilting parties, singing conventions, and one-room schools in the United StatesAuthor: Altha EarnestPublisher: Sunstone PressPublication Date: Oct 31, 2016Number of Pages: 86...

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,...

Las Vegas, New Mexico has been characterized as "two towns, one place," "The Town that wouldn't gamble," and "The Wildest of the Wild West." The descriptions are at least partially accurate, but they...

Author: Allan D. HunterPublisher: Sunstone PressPublication Date: Feb 25, 2020Number of Pages: 216 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1632932903ISBN-13: 9781632932907

The time is 1887. From any window in Georgia O'Keeffe's Sun Prairie, Wisconsin birthplace home she only saw the Wisconsin prairie with its traces of roads veering around the flat marshlands and a...

The time is 1946. From Georgia O'Keeffe's old "hacienda" sitting on a bluff in Abiquiu, New Mexico, she could see my aunt and uncle, Helen and Winfield Morten's property across the Chama River...

Author: James C. WilsonPublisher: Sunstone PressPublication Date: Nov 09, 2021Number of Pages: 162 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1632933527ISBN-13: 9781632933522

First time visitors to the American West, Delia Hager Duval and her French husband, Jean-Paul, accept an offer of an old Santa Fe adobe house for the Christmas holidays. But something is terribly...

Here, in a comprehensive, practical, and extremely readable volume, an author-artist whose many nature books are favorites with children gives an absorbing account of goats-the countries from which...

Fellow priests called his ministry "just short of a miracle." A superior castigated him as "an adventurer," Apaches and migrant Mexicans claimed him "one of us." To his fellow soldiers he was "a...

Grandmother Tells a Story, Mimbres Children Learn ResponsibilityAuthor: Carilyn Alarid, Marilyn MarkelPublisher: Sunstone PressPublication Date: Oct 15, 2021Number of Pages: 92 pagesLanguage:...

Granger Pino has a history of manipulating others to do his dirty work. In Granger's Threat, Granger was sent to prison for his dastardly deeds. Now his mother Margaret, who worships Granger, has...

In a small town in northern New Mexico a father's untimely death leads to mayhem and murder. Families find their lives threatened once the father's will is read for unlike his wife, he did not...

Author: Rick O'Shea, Michael W. ShurgotPublisher: Sunstone PressPublication Date: Mar 23, 2020Number of Pages: 176 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 163293292XISBN-13: 9781632932921

This book is a comprehensive gardening book for the high desert regions with emphasis on growing vegetables. It includes many tips to help the high desert dweller cope with the problems of raising...

Katherine Augustine is an extraordinary person. This book tells Katherine?s story in her own words. It is drawn entirely from a selection of her writings in various publications, complete copies of...

In 1984, Jack Loeffler produced a radio series entitled "Southwest Sound Collage." His primary listener was his great friend author Edward Abbey who said, "Loeffler, this radio series should be a...

Following the discovery of the decapitated corpse of Arthur Rochford Manby in his nineteen-room mansion in Taos, New Mexico, there quickly arose two schools of thought as to the event. One sect...

A unique characteristic of Native American medicine is the belief that each patient holds a different spirit, and that the healing can only work when it affects the individual spirit. Mythology is...

Mica Daly is fresh from his scandal-ridden ouster from the hit American entertainment series "Drop Zone." But the scandal gave Mica international gravitas and he has landed a new deal as the...

A collection of true stories about heroes and villains in New Mexico history both historical and contemporary.Author: Bud RussoPublisher: Sunstone PressPublication Date: May 17, 2018Number of Pages:...

Some of these tales are about genuine heroes. Some are about dastardly villains. Others you'll have to decide for yourself: hero or villain? You'll recognize these people, even if you don't remember...

When Air Force Captain Norm Whitman gets his orders to a remote island off the southern coast of Korea he finds himself working for Major Dubbs, who already hates his guts. But it only takes a day...

When Air Force Captain Norm Whitman gets his orders to a remote island off the southern coast of Korea he finds himself working for Major Dubbs, who already hates his guts. But it only takes a day...

Hiking New Mexico'S Chaco Canyon: The Trails, The Ruins, The HistoryAuthor: James Calmar WilsonPublisher: Sunstone PressPublication Date: Aug 02, 2019Number of Pages: 98 pagesLanguage:...

After Santa Fe was founded in 1610, the Hispano people were restless to expand their colony. They slowly pushed their borders to the north, establishing little villages along the Rio Grande and...

The history of any state is largely determined by the lives and actions of its residents and particularly its leading citizens. This book presents a sampling of Hispanic men and women whose...

The history of any state is largely determined by the lives and actions of its residents and particularly its leading citizens. This book presents a sampling of Hispanic men and women whose...