John P. Wilson
John P. Wilson earned his doctorate at Harvard University. He worked as an archaeologist at the Museum of New Mexico in Santa Fe, and during this time excavated at old Fort Fillmore near Las Cruces, New Mexico, and Fort Sumner in eastern New Mexico.Wilson has authored many articles and several books, including Merchants, Guns, and Money: A History of Lincoln, New Mexico.
Peoples of the Middle Gila
A Documentary History of the Pimas and Maricopas 1500s–1945
The manuscript covers the period between AD 1694 and 1945 for which written documentation exists, and is largely based on descriptions that were recorded by explorers, missionaries, soldiers, settlers, and others who traveled through the area. The document is an essential reference for the historic period in southern Arizona, and considerable information is compiled in this book that has previously been unavailable elsewhere.
- Copyright year: 2014
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid as I Knew Them
Reminiscences of John P. Meadows
A collection of John P. Meadows's interviews originally given to refute inaccuracies in the 1930 movie Billy the Kid. Also includes Meadows's memories of the Southwest's frontier days and the characters he knew.
- Copyright year: 2004
The Navajos in 1705
Roque Madrid's Campaign Journal
This book is a significant contribution to Navajo studies providing the earliest eighteenth-century eyewitness account of the Navajo in New Mexico.
- Copyright year: 1997
From Western Deserts to Carolina Swamps
A Civil War Soldier's Journals and Letters Home
- Copyright year: 2012
When the Texans Came
Missing Records from the Civil War in the Southwest, 1861-1862
Newly-available records from the Civil War in the Southwest, drawn from both Union and Confederate sources, give a much-improved understanding of that period through the words of those who shaped and participated in events at that time.
- Copyright year: 2001