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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.

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An Unsettled Country

Changing Landscapes of the American West

University of New Mexico Press

In these four essays, which were presented as the 1992 Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western History and Culture, Donald Worster incisively discusses the role of the natural environment in the making of the West--and often in its unmaking and remaking.

  • Copyright year: 1994
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Essays in Twentieth-Century New Mexico History

University of New Mexico Press

This volume supplements the standard accounts of New Mexico history and will reward readers seeking to understand the complex nature of contemporary New Mexico.

  • Copyright year: 1996
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Conflict and Change in Cuba

University of New Mexico Press

The thirteen original essays in this volume explore the dynamics of continuity, conflict, and change in Cuba. Analyzed here are the historical trends and patterns of conflict in Cuba compared to contradictions that inevitably arise in any political system.

  • Copyright year: 1993
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Tierra Amarilla

Stories of New Mexico / Cuentos de Nuevo Mexico

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 1993
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Mayordomo

Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

This memoir of the author's experience as a mayordomo, or ditch boss, is the first record of the life of an acequia by a community participant.

  • Copyright year: 1993
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Nine Years Among the Indians, 1870-1879

The Story of the Captivity and Life of a Texan Among the Indians

By Herman Lehmann; Edited by J. Marvin Hunter; Foreword by Dale F. Giese
University of New Mexico Press

It is the tale of Herman Lehmann, a captive of the Apaches on the Southern Plains of Texas and New Mexico during the 1870s.

  • Copyright year: 1993
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The Boy Who Made Dragonfly

A Zuni Myth

University of New Mexico Press

A Zuni myth first recorded a century ago.

  • Copyright year: 1993
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Taking the Wheel

Women and the Coming of the Motor Age

University of New Mexico Press

Scharff looks at women's struggles to be accepted as drivers.

  • Copyright year: 1992
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The Zuni Man-Woman

University of New Mexico Press

The life of We'wha (1849-96), the Zuni who was perhaps the most famous berdache (an individual who combined the work and traits of both men and women) in American Indian history.

  • Copyright year: 1992
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A History of the Jews in New Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

In this first history of the Jews in New Mexico--from the colonial period to the present day--the author continuously ties the Jewish experience to the evolution of the societies in which they lived and worked.

  • Copyright year: 1992
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Stopping Time

A Rephotographic Survey of Lake Tahoe

University of New Mexico Press

The Tahoe basin--then and now.

  • Copyright year: 1992
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Old Oraibi

A Study of the Hopi Indians of Third Mesa

University of New Mexico Press

First published in 1944, Old Oraibi is an ethnographic classic, offering a sensitive portrayal of Hopi traditional culture.

  • Copyright year: 1992
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Time and the Highland Maya

University of New Mexico Press

Described as a landmark in the ethnographic study of the Maya, this study of ritual and cosmology among the contemporary Quiché Indians of highland Guatemala has now been updated to address changes that have occurred in the last decade.

  • Copyright year: 1992
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Acoma

Pueblo in the Sky

University of New Mexico Press

A comprehensive history of the Acoma sanctioned by the tribe.

  • Copyright year: 1991
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Navaho Folk Tales

University of New Mexico Press

In this marvelous collection, Franc Newcomb recounts some of the many folk tales she heard during long winter evenings at Blue Mesa.

  • Copyright year: 1990
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New Mexico's Railroads

A Historical Survey

University of New Mexico Press

From narrow-gauge lines to Amtrak, this railroad lover's book shows the importance of trains to New Mexico's heritage.

  • Copyright year: 1990
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Chicano Politics

Reality and Promise 1940-1990

University of New Mexico Press

How a new style of politics coalesced into an ethnic populism known as the Chicano movement.

  • Copyright year: 1990
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The Problem of Order in Changing Societies

Essays on Crime and Policing in Argentina and Uruguay

University of New Mexico Press

The six essays in this volume examine Argentina from the eighteenth century to the 1930s and Uruguay during the nineteenth century to show the links between crime and the social and economic order.

  • Copyright year: 1990
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Termination and Relocation

Federal Indian Policy, 1945-1960

University of New Mexico Press

A major study of the effects on American Indians of the termination and relocation policies instituted during the Truman and Eisenhower era.

  • Copyright year: 1990
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High Noon in Lincoln

Violence on the Western Frontier

University of New Mexico Press

"In research, writing, and interpretation, High Noon in Lincoln is a superb book. It is one of the best books (maybe the best) ever written on a violent episode in the West."--Richard Maxwell Brown author of Strain of Violence: Historical Studies of American Violence and Vigilantism

  • Copyright year: 1990
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Myth and the History of the Hispanic Southwest

University of New Mexico Press

Explores the complex ways that myth and history have intersected in the remembrance of the Southwest's Hispanic past.

  • Copyright year: 1990
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Growing Up with the Country

Childhood on the Far Western Frontier

University of New Mexico Press

This illustrated study shows how frontier life shaped children's character.

  • Copyright year: 1989
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Josey Wales

Two Westerns : Gone to Texas; The Vengeance Trail of Josey Wales

University of New Mexico Press

Josey Wales was the most wanted man in Texas. His wife and child had been lost to pre-civil War destruction and, like Jesse James and other young farmers, he joined the guerrilla soldiers of Missouri-men with no cause but survival and no purpose but revenge.

  • Copyright year: 1989
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Fishing in New Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

Key to fishing waters.

  • Copyright year: 1996
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A Guide Book to Highway 66

University of New Mexico Press

An exact facsimile of the first guidebook of its kind to the full length of the famous Route 66.

  • Copyright year: 1989
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Photography in Print

Writings from 1816 to the Present

Edited by Vicki Goldberg
University of New Mexico Press

Essays by photographers, critics, and philosophers.

  • Copyright year: 1988
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Western Women

Their Land, Their Lives

University of New Mexico Press

These essays analyze and interpret studies on women's roles in the American West.

  • Copyright year: 1988
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New Mexico

An Interpretive History

University of New Mexico Press

The memorable story of New Mexico's history.

  • Copyright year: 1988
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Wind from an Enemy Sky

University of New Mexico Press

A novel about a fictional Northwestern tribe.

  • Copyright year: 1988
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Dancing Gods

Indian Ceremonials of New Mexico and Arizona

University of New Mexico Press

The best single reference for visitors to dances at the Rio Grande Pueblos, Zuni Pueblo, the Hopi Mesas, and the Navajo and Apache reservations.

  • Copyright year: 1988
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Westward the Women

An Anthology of Western Stories by Women

Edited by Vicki Piekarski
University of New Mexico Press

Stories by Willa Cather, Mary Austin, Mari Sandoz, and Leslie Silko, among other women writers, who have illuminated the Western experience.

  • Copyright year: 1988
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Heart of Aztlan

A Novel

University of New Mexico Press

"In Heart of Aztlan a prose writer with the soul of a poet, and a dedication to his calling that only the greatest artists ever sustain, is on an important track, the right one, the only one."-La Confluencia

  • Copyright year: 1988
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The Devil's Butcher Shop

The New Mexico Prison Uprising

University of New Mexico Press

"A modern horror story told in graphic detail. Morris's meticulous documentation traces prison corruption . . . proving the tragedy could have been avoided. I recommend this book without reservation."--Jack Anderson

  • Copyright year: 1988
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From Hacienda to Bungalow

Northern New Mexico Houses, 1850-1912

University of New Mexico Press

A generously illustrated look at how architecture changed dramatically in northern New Mexico with the influx of settlers from the East.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Diné Bahane'

The Navajo Creation Story

University of New Mexico Press

Zolbrod's book offers the general reader a vivid introduction to Navajo culture.

  • Copyright year: 1987
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New Mexico's Best Ghost Towns

A Practical Guide

University of New Mexico Press

This useful guidebook surveys more than eighty ghost towns, grouped by geographic area.

  • Copyright year: 1987
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The Navajo Language

A Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary

University of New Mexico Press

This definitive dictionary and linguistic resource by Robert Young is once again available.

  • Copyright year: 1987
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The Fourth World of the Hopis

The Epic Story of the Hopi Indians as Preserved in Their Legends and Traditions

University of New Mexico Press

Here the noted folklorist brings together traditional accounts of epic events and adventures in the life of Hopi clans and villages, from legendary to historical times.

  • Copyright year: 1987
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Runner in the Sun

By D'Arcy McNickle; Afterword by Alfonso Ortiz; Illustrated by Allan C. Houser
University of New Mexico Press

A novel of pre-Hispanic Indian life in the Southwest.

  • Copyright year: 1987
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Cannery Women, Cannery Lives

Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950

University of New Mexico Press

This dramatic and turbulent history of UCAPAWA is a major contribution to the new labor history in its carefully documented account of minority women controlling their union and regulating their working lives.

  • Copyright year: 1987
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