Finding Abbey
The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave
"Prentiss reveals the power of Ed Abbey's lasting call to action, not just as a Monkey Wrencher, but also as an ethicist who lives by Ed's own motto, 'Follow the truth no matter where it leads.'"--Jack Loeffler, author of Adventures with Ed: A Portrait of Abbey
A Vision of Voices
John Crosby and the Santa Fe Opera
"An authoritative and exhaustive examination of John Crosby--the musician, the visionary, the impresario, the man--and his magnum opus, the Santa Fe Opera."--Juliana Gondek, professor of voice and opera studies, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
The Women's National Indian Association
A History
Mathes's edited volume, the first book to address the history of the WNIA, comprises essays by eight authors on the work of this important reform group.
The Faster Redder Road
The Best UnAmerican Stories of Stephen Graham Jones
This collection showcases the best writings of Stephen Graham Jones, whose career is developing rapidly from the noir underground to the mainstream.
Community Health Narratives
A Reader
Community Health Narratives: A Reader along with its companions Global Health Narratives: A Reader for Youth and Environmental Health Narratives: A Reader for Youth (UNM Press), provides a comprehensive curriculum that examines people's health experiences across cultures and nations.
Report to the Department of the Interior
Poems
Constructed as a series of reports to the Department of the Interior, these poems of grief, anger, defiance, and resistance focus on the oppressive educational system adopted by Indian boarding schools and the struggle Native Americans experienced to retain and honor traditional ways of life and culture.
One Day I'll Tell You the Things I've Seen
Stories
The stories in Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez's intimate conversational narrative take readers around the world, from the orchards of California to the cornfields of Iowa, from the neighborhoods of Madrid and Mexico City to the Asian shore of Istanbul.
Hoe, Heaven, and Hell
My Boyhood in Rural New Mexico
In this account of his boyhood García writes unforgettably about his family's village life, telling story after story, all of them true, and fascinating everyone interested in New Mexico history and culture.
The Canyon
A Novel
To read this quiet, rich evocation of adolescent watchfulness is to experience what it is like to be fourteen years old, waiting for something to happen, aware of everything but oblivious to as much of it as possible.
The Arranged Marriage
Poems
"Jehanne Dubrow in her fifth book of poems tells us a story so compelling that we put down our tasks and turn to her voice."--Hilda Raz, author of All Odd and Splendid
Painted Turtle
Woman with Guitar
"Major brings his characters to life with the accretion of specific details. Even so, his novel is distinctly spiritual, emphasizing the significance of traditional beliefs in the lives of Painted Turtle and her family."--Publishers Weekly
Four Square Leagues
Pueblo Indian Land in New Mexico
This long-awaited book is the most detailed and up-to-date account of the complex history of Pueblo Indian land in New Mexico, beginning in the late seventeenth century and continuing to the present day.
Coronado
Knight of Pueblos and Plains
Herbert Eugene Bolton's classic of southwestern history, first published in 1949, delivers the epic account of Francisco Vásquez de Coronado's sixteenth-century entrada to the North American frontier of the Spanish Empire.
The Zunis
Self-Portrayals
Now back in print after more than thirty years, The Zunis: Self-Portrayals offers forty-six stories of myth, prophecy, and history from the great oral literature of the Zuni Indians of New Mexico.
The Hero Twins
A Navajo-English Story of the Monster Slayers
Told in Navajo, the Diné language, and English, this story exists in many versions, and all demonstrate the importance of thinking, patience, persistence, bravery, and reverence.
Protecting Yellowstone
Science and the Politics of National Park Management
In Protecting Yellowstone, Michael Yochim considers how park managers may best work within the contemporary policy-making context to preserve national parks.
Laguna Pueblo
A Photographic History
Laguna Pueblo: A Photographic History includes more than one hundred of Marmon's photos showcasing his talents while highlighting the cohesive, adaptive, and independent character of the Laguna people.
Jemez Spring
Rudolfo Anaya's latest Sonny Baca mystery eerily reflects current events: it involves terrorists, environmental activists, and water rights in the Southwest.
El Paso's Muckraker
The Life of Owen Payne White
This long-overdue biography restores this overlooked writer to the forefront of western history and journalism.
Rider of the Pale Horse
A Memoir of Los Alamos and Beyond
A recollection of life in the workshops where nuclear bomb components were constructed during the Manhattan Project.
Prep School Cowboys
Ranch Schools in the American West
"An engaging, well-researched account of the private schools that proliferated in the interwar years in the American Southwest. Bingmann does an excellent job of situating these schools in the context of the history of American education."--Lynn Dumenil, author of The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s
Spiritual Currency in Northeast Brazil
This book examines the spiritual community of the followers of St. Francis of Wounds in the town of Canindé in northeast Brazil.
Gila Country Legend
The Life and Times of Quentin Hulse
The compelling biography of a unique western rancher constantly adjusting to the inroads of modernity into his traditional way of life.
Searching for Madre Matiana
Prophecy and Popular Culture in Modern Mexico
Edward Wright-Rios examines the much-maligned--and sometimes celebrated--character of Madre Matiana and her position in the development of Mexico.
How Long Is the Present
Selected Talk Poems of David Antin
In this book editor Stephen Fredman provides critical introductions to a selection of talk poems from Antin's now out-of-print collections in conjunction with a new interview with the author.
Bush League Boys
The Postwar Legends of Baseball in the American Southwest
"In Bush League Boys sportswriter Toby Smith relies upon fascinating oral histories to recall the home runs, screen money, and dust storms that characterized the glory days of post-World War II baseball in the Southwest."--Ron Briley, author of The Baseball Film in Postwar America: A Critical Study, 1948-1962
Women Drug Traffickers
Mules, Bosses, and Organized Crime
"The first full-length study of female drug traffickers. The lives of these women are fascinating and skillfully analyzed by the author. The book will be pleasurable reading to general readers and specialists alike."--Howard Campbell, author of Drug War Zone: Frontline Dispatches from the Streets of El Paso and Juárez
The Memory of Stone
Meditations on the Canyons of the West
Erv Schroeder's photographs bear witness to the primordial forces of the earth--the raw power that moved and shifted huge hunks of rock to form natural stone sculptures.
Massacre of the Dreamers
Essays on Xicanisma. 20th Anniversary Updated Edition.
This new edition of an immensely influential book gives voice to Mexic Amerindian women silenced for hundreds of years by the dual censorship of being female and indigenous.