A few years after his release from a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp in 1973, Colonel Joseph Kittinger retired from the Air Force. Restless and unchallenged, he turned to ballooning, a lifelong
This riveting true story recounts the author's journey on horseback across Arizona and New Mexico, retracing Coronado's desperate search for the legendary Seven Cities of Gold. First published in 1992
The first account of a unique American folk art, this pioneering book is based on exhaustive research and describes the tools, materials, and processes of tinwork. The authors explain how to date New
Despite women's loss in her culture of many traditional roles--notably that of Corn Woman--upon European contact and their scarcity in tribal histories, Pesantubbee (Native American religious traditio
In the 19th century artists flocked to Colorado, drawn to the world-renowned styles such as realism and impressionism, but their successors in the early 20th century were resistant to another Old Wor
When thirteen-year-old Robert "Skeeter" Tates, fed up with his Yankee stepfather and stepbrothers, leaves his Arkansas home for Texas in 1867, he meets up with unexpected traveling companions as well
This large-format book serves to showcase the photographs of Craig Varjabedian, and the state of New Mexico. The photographs are landscape images of the state, with a few portraits, all in high-contra
Internationally known as a writer, hostess, and patron of the arts of the twentieth century, Mabel Dodge Luhan (1879–1962) is not known for her experiences with venereal disease, unmentioned in her fo
Hailed by Booklist as "two talented authors who vividly bring to life the beauty of New Mexico and its people," Sue Boggio and Mare Pearl return in A Growing Season to Esperanza, New Mexico, the setti
Thinking Like a Watershed points our understanding of our relationship to the land in new directions. It is shaped by the bioregional visions of the great explorer John Wesley Powell, who articulated
In the 1960s, real estate developers threatened to build over fossil beds in Colorado, even as the National Park Service planned a national monument there. Author Leopold (University of Washington), o
Before recovery comes the preparation to recover. In City of Slow Dissolve, John Cha’vez takes readers through this journey--the "slow dissolve," the unpacking and re-packing of self that must take pl
For sixty million years, the Gila River, longer than the Hudson and the Delaware combined, has shaped the ecology of the Southwest from its source in New Mexico to its confluence with the Colorado Riv
When fourteen-year-old wannabe cowboy Noah Odell and his widowed mother leave rainy Gold Hill, Oregon, to join Noah's flamboyant uncle Bud on a ranch in New Mexico, they find themselves in the middle
Ancient relics--stone tools, bones, footprints, and even DNA--offer many clues about our human ancestors and how they lived. At the same time, our kinship with our human ancestors lies as much in thei
The poetry of Lawrence Welsh crosses many borders, from South Central Los Angeles, where he was raised, to El Paso, where he has lived for almost twenty years. A newspaper man turned poet, a punk rock
The Chihuahuan desert is the second largest in North America and its northern, or United States, portion occupies southeastern Arizona, southern New Mexico, and Texas west of the Pecos River. Hot, dry
When Thomas Fox Averill first heard Jimmy Driftwood's ballad "Tennessee Stud," he found the song hauntingly compelling. As he began to imagine the story behind the lyrics, he set out to research the s
The fictional High Plains village of Sweeney, New Mexico, population 856 and falling, is like so many small towns in rural America--once vibrant and alive but now a dry husk of obsolescence, decay, an
In this poetry collection, Margaret Randall uses the metaphor of ruins to meditate on time's movement--through memory, through cities, through the leavings of history, and through the bodies of people
