Established in 1929, the University of New Mexico Press publishes creative works and scholarship in several disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, indigenous studies, Native studies, Latin American studies, art, architecture, and the history, literature, ecology, and cultures of the American West. UNM Press is the largest publisher in New Mexico and seeks to represent the culture, history, and stories of the Southwest.
Tombstone
An Iliad of the Southwest
A mixture of fact and fiction, this is the book that defined Wyatt Earp's legend as a gunfighter-lawman.
- Copyright year: 1999
The Saga of Billy the Kid
First published in 1926, this dramatic biography forever installed outlaw Billy the Kid in the pantheon of mythic heroes from the Old West.
- Copyright year: 1999
The Collected Stories of Moacyr Scliar
From Brazil's most distinguished and important Jewish writer comes this anthology of powerful stories, bringing a compelling voice of the Jewish Diaspora to the English language.
- Copyright year: 1999
Six Neuvomexicano Folk Dramas for Advent Season
This bilingual edition of these classic folk dramas is produced for both those acting in the plays, or for students of the literature.
- Copyright year: 1999
Horizontal Yellow
Nature and History in the Near Southwest
Personal and historical meditations explore the human and natural history of the large expanse of land the Navajos once named the Horizontal Yellow.
- Copyright year: 1999
Cuentos from Long Ago
A bilingual sampler of southwestern tales, legends, and myths offering the modern reader wisdom passed down for hundreds of years.
- Copyright year: 1999
CrashBoomLove
A Novel in Verse
A California farmworker kid's season in hell, told through fast-verse lines that careen to the beat of a fiery heart.
- Copyright year: 1999
Chasing Shadows
Apaches and Yaquis Along the United States-Mexico Border, 1876-1911
Hatfield examines for the first time the military campaigns on both sides of the border against the Apaches and other native peoples during the late nineteenth century.
- Copyright year: 1999
American Indian Grandmothers
Traditions and Transitions
These essays explore the complex world of grandmothers in Native America, where, although often impoverished and marginalized, they provide a vital connection to native identity, history, and wisdom.
- Copyright year: 1999
The Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute
An American Tragedy
This personal and historical account traces the twentieth-century legal battle, Healing v. Jones, and it's effects on both tribes.
- Copyright year: 1999