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The Matachines dance is a ritual drama performed on certain saint's days in Pueblo Indian and Mexicano/Hispano communities along the upper R?o Grande valley in New Mexico and elsewhere in the...

When the United States acquired New Mexico by invasion and conquest on August 15, 1846, it inherited a land grant problem of considerable magnitude. This problem continued for decades until 1870 when...

In 1866, a Chiricahua Apache girl, Dah-zhonne, was eleven years old when a Mexican army unit attacked and decimated her band's village. The horrible affair changed her life forever and she swore...

William A. Keleher always had an active curiosity and this made him an outstanding newspaperman and an indefatigable researcher of historical events. It led him into many intellectual adventures that...

A clandestine shipment of arms and money delivered by night to southern Lebanon disappears amid the deaths of three people by gunfire. The 15 million dollars in U.S. currency re-appears, again at...

While living in Denver in the early 1890s, Francis Schlatter, a poor immigrant cobbler from Alsace-Lorraine, heard a voice inside his head that told him to put down his tools and go outside and walk...

The M?tis are the descendants of Cree and Assiniboine women who joined with French and Scottish men to raise children and shape a hybrid culture in the heart of Canada. In "M?tis, Mixed Blood...

A story of nature and life on the mesa as seen through the eyes, ears and nose of a friendly, curious cocker spaniel. Delightful, informative book suitable for children and adults. Illustrated...

An orphaned bird named Miracle is confronted with life?s many challenges. Faced with feelings of loss, abandonment, shame, and homeliness, Miracle doesn?t know where to turn. But she is able to grow...

Poems by a well-known Southwestern US writer and teacher.Author: James McGrathPublisher: Sunstone PressPublication Date: May 15, 2019Number of Pages: 192 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Mountain Lion Charlie was a real person. Those few who were fortunate to know him and those who heard hand-me-down tales romanced his deeds unnecessarily. Charlie's truths are more than sufficient. A...

When Dr. Lawrence A. Cooper (Coop) and two friends, Harvey Peck and Mack McGeary, saddle up for a wilderness fishing trip, they have no idea what mayhem lies ahead. While searching for a legendary...

Alice Bullock says, "We can't go back." Thomas Wolfe said it and has been quoted ever since. Yet it bears repetition, especially today and in reference to Alice Bullock's Mountain Villages of New...

Set in a small seashore town, there is a unique motive for homicide: exclusion from a coveted world of social position.Author: Jeanne ToomeyPublisher: Sunstone PressPublication Date: Mar 15,...

Who hasn't dreamed of escaping a humdrum existence, shredding unrelenting debts, thumbing a nose at ravenous utility behemoths, and fleeing to some remote mountain hideaway? Ben did! Pull up a chair,...

Miguel Antonio Otero (1859-1944) not only distinguished himself as a political leader in New Mexico and lived out his life as a champion of the people, but he is also highly recognized for his career...

Miguel Antonio Otero (1859-1944) not only distinguished himself as a political leader in New Mexico and lived out his life as a champion of the people, but he is also highly recognized for his career...

Miguel Antonio Otero (1859-1944) not only distinguished himself as a political leader in New Mexico and lived out his life as a champion of the people, but he is also highly recognized for his career...

This unusual book, Fray Ang?lico Ch?vez's personal meditation on his cultural heritage, is also a kind of spiritual autobiography of the Hispano people of New Mexico. The spirit of New Mexico, he...

Myths of Native American spiritual women found throughout the Americas retold by well known American Southwestern professor, lecturer and storyteller--Author: Teresa PijoanPublisher: Sunstone...

Myths allow us to experience and find a meaning for life through different cultures. Myths resonate within us, bringing an experience of existing within a dissimilar reality. The Native American...

The stories in this book, recorded by the author from personal interviews with Native American storytellers, hold the conflicts and compliments of family and/or situations of testing in relationships...

This book explores the world of contemporary American Indian Art in the Southwest, a subject that has long been overlooked-until now. At the heart of the book is how these artists are trapped in a...

Thirty years of teaching was the hallmark of the distinguished career of Dr. George A. Boyce, Ed. D. Educated at Trinity College, Cornell University and Columbia University, he never lost his...

Extraordinary people lead extraordinary lives and, from the beginning, even before he had any control over his life, John Meigs' life was extraordinary: kidnapped by his father, never to see his...

Extraordinary people lead extraordinary lives and, from the beginning, even before he had any control over his life, John Meigs' life was extraordinary: kidnapped by his father, never to see his...

New Mexico Episodes, Stories from a Colorful PastAuthor: John Philip WilsonPublisher: Sunstone PressPublication Date: May 13, 2020Number of Pages: 118 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

The magnificent Sandia Mountain forms an enormous rampart towering over the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Regionally, the feature's distinctive "whale back" profile utterly dominates the horizon...

LeBaron Bradford Prince (1840-1922) was a transplanted New Yorker, a tireless judge, a controversial territorial governor, a gentleman scholar, and an early leader of the Historical Society of New...

"This is my favorite kind of history," writes Dick Haeberlin in "Southwestern American Literature," "the story of a person I did not know about before, one not famous but important anyway." And...