This account of the French era in Canada is the most original treatment of the subject in over a century.

Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca was the first European to cross the North American continent. This remarkable book is his odyssey, first written in 1542 as an official report to the king of Spain under the title La Relación.

More than providing a compendium of southwestern Indian history and culture, this remarkable book gives the reader an understanding of and appreciation for the unique lifeways of these peoples whose philopophy, the author believes, may be our one great resource for peace.

The classic biography of one of the great Native American crusaders for Indian rights in the early twentieth century.

Myres uses extensive source material by and about women to study the impact of the frontier on women's lives and the role of women in the West.

Reinterprets borderlands history from the Mexican perspective.

The pathbreaking classic on law enforcement on the frontier of the American West.

This broad survey of Native American writing today is incisive, reflective, moving, and provocative in its variety.

The history of the Tularosa Basin--which includes White Sands Missile Range--from pioneer days through the atomic age.

Archaeological research conducted in Tijeras Canyon, New Mexico, in the 1970s by the University of New Mexico summer field school of archaeology and the Laboratory of Anthropology of the Museum of New Mexico.

An overview of mining and its effects on the settlement of the West.

A novel set on the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana.

Biography of a Hopi Indian woman and her career as an educator.

Depression-era east Texas is the setting for this memorable story of a contract farmer determined to provide food for his family and hope for the future.

This thought-provoking book by the leading authority on Turner presents the results of modern research in history and the behavioral sciences, concluding that in many ways the Turner hypothesis is a valid one.

Detailed information on every aspect of New Mexico's past.

The classic history of the Spanish frontier from Florida to California.

Botanical listing of edible plants, recipes and ethnobotanical information, wilderness survival manual, with a chapter on poisonous plants.

Biography of the man who discovered the prehistoric ruins at Mesa Verde, Colorado, and began the excavation of Pueblo Bonito at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico.

The haunting experiences of a shy Pennsylvania woman who opened a tearoom in her adobe home that became a haven for neighboring nuclear scientists and Indians alike.