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In the Country of Empty Crosses: The Story of a Hispano Protestant Family in Catholic New Mexico by Arturo Madrid Synopsis Arturos Madrids homeland is in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains in northern New Mexico, where each town seems a world apart from the next, and where family histories that extend back four centuries bind the people to the land and to one another.This New... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper 
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New Mexico: A Guide for the Eyes by Elisa Parhad Publisher Comments Visually focused, packed with cultural insight, and sized for portability, Guides for the Eyes celebrate the local traditions and visual vernacular that surround us. Operating at the intersection of art and anthropology, each edition in the series... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Spell of New Mexico by Tony Hillerman Publisher Comments A rich gathering of essays that evoke the unique and mysterious appeal New Mexico has had for some of the twentieth century's best-known writers. Included are selections by Mary Austin, Oliver La Farge, Conrad Richter, D.H. Lawrence, C.G. Jung, Winfield... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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New Mexico Past and Present (06 Edition) by Thomas E. Chavez Publisher Comments This new perspective on the colorful history of New Mexico includes the stories of many of the people who have spent their lives in the area from before the arrival of Europeans in the sixteenth century through the present day.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Pilgrimage to Chimayo: Contemporary Portrait of a Living Tradition by Sam Howarth Publisher Comments This astonishing little book is a moving portrait of a religious and spiritual tradition -- the annual Good Friday pilgrimage to the holy shrine, the Santuario de Chimayo, by those who believe in its healing powers of earth and water.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Lucien Maxwell by Harriet Freiberger Publisher Comments As 100,000 gold seekers raced to California in 1849, 31-year-old mountain man Lucien Maxwell had already crossed the Shining Mountains with John Fremont and chosen a different destiny: land, not gold. Purchasing almost two million acres of land over the... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Santa Fe: History of an Ancient City by David Grant Noble Book News Annotation Copyright 1987 by the Peters Corporation, this exhibition catalog is now distributted by U. of New Mexico Press. A new history written for a general audience by scholars who have studied primary documents in Mexico and Spain. The focus is on... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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We Came To Santa Fe by Victor Di Suvero Publisher Comments Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. WE CAME TO SANTA FE is an anthology of 73 different authors who come together to share their unique and individual story as to how it is that they were drawn to the city of Santa Fe, New Mexico. This collection of memoirs and... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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In the Shadow of Los Alamos: Selected Writings of Edith Warner by Edith Warner Publisher Comments To read this book is to hear her own quiet voice, describing pueblo ceremonials, detailing the difficulties of life during the war years, and above all recording her own spiritual relationship with the New Mexico landscape.... (read more) List Price $18.75 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Santa Fe and Taos: Under a Coyote Moon by Landt Dennis Publisher Comments The spectacular photographs of Lisl Dennis, paired with husband Landt Dennis's vivid prose, bring the wonder and magic of the Southwest alive in this homage to two very different New Mexican towns linked by a shared history. No ordinary photographic... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Wake for a Fat Vicar by Angelico Chavez Book News Annotation Ortiz stood out among New Mexicans of Mexican descent because he was exceedingly fat, fair skinned, and red haired, but was never lazy, as Lamy, the first bishop of Santa Fe, accused. So begins Anglico Chvez's biography. A Franciscan priest and widely... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Enchantment and Exploitation: The Life and Hard Times of a New Mexico Mountain Range by William Eno Debuys Publisher Comments This unusual book is a complete account of the closely linked natural and human history of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of northern New Mexico, a region unique in its rich combination of ecological and cultural diversity.... (read more) List Price $38.50 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Myth of the Hanging Tree: Stories of Crime and Punishment in Territorial New Mexico by Robert J Torrez Publisher Comments Torrez studies the gritty role of hangings in frontier New Mexico.... (read more) List Price $18.75 Your price: $4.98 Used - Trade Paper
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Albuquerque: A City at the End of the World by V B Price Publisher Comments Updated more than ten years after its initial publication, this impassioned book is more relevant than ever to Albuquerque's future. "Illuminating, provocative. . . . a complex, intelligent study of urbanization through an intimate examination of... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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It Happened in New Mexico by James A Crutchfield Publisher Comments True Tales from New Mexico's Past From the life and times of Folsom Man (9,000 BC) to the Great Prison Riot of Santa Fe County (1980 AD), It Happened in New Mexico tells the stories of intriguing people and events from the history of one of America... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.68 New - Trade Paper
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Los Alamos--The Ranch School Years, 1917-1943 by John D Wirth Publisher Comments Wirth and Aldrich examine the Los Alamos Ranch School, an elite prep school for boys, ages twelve to eighteen. In existence between the two World Wars, the school's curriculum combined a robust outdoor life with a rigorous academic program mirroring the... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Mas Antes: Hispanic Folklore of the Rio Puerco Valley by Nasario Garcia Synopsis A noted folklorist presents this bilingual compilation of the dichos (sayings), adivinanzas (riddles), stories, love quatrains, letters, ballads, and songs from Spanish New Mexico.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.98 Used - Hardcover
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Roadside History of New Mexico (Roadside History) by Francis L Fugate Synopsis The "Roadside History" series charts a course to the present through carefully selected and thoroughly researched stories relating what we see today with what happened before. Through vivid anecdotes, old photographs, and maps, the "Roadside History... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The House at Otowi Bridge: The Story of Edith Warner and Los Alamos by Peggy Pond Church Publisher Comments This is the story of Edith Warner, who lived for more than twenty years as a neighbor to the Indians of San Ildefonso Pueblo, near Los Alamos, New Mexico. She was a remarkable woman, a friend to everyone who knew her, from her Indian companion Tilano... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Murder & Justice in Frontier New Mexic by Jill Mocho Publisher Comments This volume recounts eleven homicides in New Mexico during the Mexican period. In colorfully written vignettes, the author explores the social and cultural tensions that erupted in lethal violence in this isolated Mexican territory. Homicide in frontier... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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