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Written while the author was earning a living as a reporter, columnist, editor, and teacher, this work features poems that explore the great learning experiences of his life, his attraction to New Mexico and Chaco Canyon, and his struggle to make sense of the modern world. It also mirrors the poets self-education.

Focuses on the birds of prey of New Mexico. This book presents the history of the word 'raptor'. It uses the order of Raptatores, or Raptores to classify birds of prey in the early nineteenth century, derived from the Latin word raptor, one who seizes by force.

Offers an overview of the fauna and flora of New Mexico, from Cambrian through Pleistocene time. This book includes a summary of paleontological and evolutionary events, an outline of the stratigraphy of the state, maps, and commentary on the vertebrates, invertebrates, and plants that lived in New Mexico during each time interval.

Rain is so difficult to capture on film, no matter how you light it. It was as though we had to walk though the scene again and again in altering gradations until you found the right movement, the right way to get it down.

A historic anthology that establishes the canon of Mexican American literature in Texas.

Intended for mental health workers, this book and CD package helps them break through language and cultural barriers between English- and Spanish-speaking participants. The suggested application is a small group setting in the workplace in which a fluent Spanish speaker serves as a facilitator at one hour sessions held once a week.

Long before snowmobiles, paved roads, and SUVs were introduced into Yellowstone National Park, a myriad of companies offered buggy and stage rides through the Park, with their drivers telling stories to their passengers. This work includes the campfire stories of the traders and trappers, Yellowstone as it was portrayed in early photos and movies.

Is the ChupaCabra mythical or real? Stories of the creature abound in Latino communities. The illusive creature is said to suck the blood of goats. Thus, its name, goatsucker. When Professor Rosa Medina began to research the folklore of the ChupaCabra, she never expected to tangle face-to-face with the monster.

Craig Varjabedian is one of the West's eloquent photographers. Here, he shares his favorite photographs and the stories behind them, revealing landscapes, architecture, and people through his images as readers gain insight into his creative process.

Includes interviews with popular Chicano/a writers, asking each about language and life between languages, about the creative drive that has guided them in their craft and commits them to their art. This work explains how each author reiterates issues that have concerned Mexican Americans since at least 1848.

The Camino Real de Tierra Adentro (Royal Road of the Interior Land) is North America's oldest and longest (1500 miles) road, which connects Mexico City with Santa Fe, New Mexico. This guidebook provides useful commentary, along with sixty maps, on the entire Camino as it winds its way from New Mexico through Mexico, ending in Mexico City.

Tells the story of the river, Gila that includes roughly four million acres of the nation's first designated (1924) wilderness area, New Mexico's largest national forest, and the state's only undammed river.

Asserts being a 'nationalist' is a legitimate perspective from which to approach Native American literature and criticism. This book considers such a methodology not only defensible but also crucial to supporting Native national sovereignty and self-determination, an important goal of Native American studies.

It's the 1940s. Little Mary Helen Ponce and her family live in Pacoima. Unmindful of their poverty, Mary Helen and her friends sneak into the circus, run wild at church bazaars, and snitch apricots from the neighbour's tree. This book tells Mary's story, of the desire of a little girl who longs for patent leather shoes instead of clunky oxfords.

Presents the history of the university within the framework of each administration and looks at Albuquerque and its citizens during each time period. This work describes to UNM alumni, former and current UNM students, and former and current faculty members and administrators, the efforts that have gone into making the University.

When Robert Hine's daughter, Elene, first showed signs of unhappiness as a little girl, no one dreamed she would grow up to have a serious personality disorder. As an early "e;baby boomer,"e; Elene reached adolescence and young womanhood in the midst of the counterculture years. Her father, a respected professor of American history at the University of California, shares the story of his family's struggle to keep Elene on track and functional, to see her through her troubles with delusions, medication, and eventually to help her raise her own children. Candid in its portrayal of the suffering Elene and her parents endured and the stumbling efforts of doctors and hospitals, Hine's story is also generous and inspiring. In spite of unimaginable difficulties, Elene and her father preserved their relationship and survived. "e;My daughter has given me permission to go ahead with the effort, [but] I know she would react quite differently to many of the events. Where I felt sadness and dejection, she very likely felt release and exultation. Where I felt helplessness, she very likely felt in happy control. Where I saw confusion and delusion, she may well have seen purpose and steadiness. This is not the story she would tell. It is solely mine, solely the viewpoint of one man, solely a father's feelings about his daughter."e; - from Robert Hine's Preface to Broken Glass

Revisits the activism of women citizens in preserving national parks and examines how far the inclusion of career women in the Park Service has progressed. This work discusses how staff can no longer fulfill the Park Service mission without outside support. This reality and the acceptance of women as leaders has affected Park Service culture.

Offers a picture of Puebloan culture from its prehistoric beginnings through twenty-five hundred years of growth and change. This volume includes photographs and plans of ruins and discusses lifestyle such as their practices, clothing, shelter, physical appearance, government, water management, trade, ceramics, and migrations.

Discussing 'curanderismo' and the practice of herbalists, this book focuses on individual healers and their procedures and traditional Mexican-American herbs and cures. The product of centuries of experience in Mexico, influenced by the Moors, Judeo-Christians, and Aztecs, this work includes use of items such as lemon and objects such as keys.

A quick reference guide for many of the people, places, and things connected to the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokees, as well as for the other officially recognized Cherokee groups, the Cherokee Nation and the Eastern Band of Cherokees.

An overview of the wars that is useful for a visit to the military posts and sites of battle. This work describes conflicts between American Indians and the US cavalry, Texas Rangers, the various military campaigns, and provides directions to battle sites and museums such as in Colorado, North Dakota and Wyoming.

This collection of six bilingual children's stories takes a regional and historical emphasis. Each story is followed with discussion questions to help children recall the story's key details and suggestions for classroom activities designed to stimulate curiosity and expand knowledge of historical events. For ages 8-10.

Offers eleven essays that touch on a variety of Southwestern themes. The essays explore the cultural appeal of the Land of Enchantment from 1945, as well as the horrific ammunition explosion that virtually wiped the hamlet of Tolar, New Mexico, off the map in 1944.

In 1958, Alaska was not yet a state. One of the last frontiers in the West, it offered a life of adventure to anyone willing to relocate there. Donna Joy, the daughter of a Methodist minister, had recently graduated from college and was ready for what Alaska promised. This book reflects her willingness to adapt, accept, and to rely on herself.

Brings into focus a study and commentary on early Puebloan landscapes, including compact gardens and terraces, plazas and courtyards, site planning, and the integration of building and landscape design. This work also examines the meaning of these historic landscapes in relation to modern landscape architecture and horticulture in the Southwest.

Western military experiences illustrate the dual role played by the United States Army in insuring national security and fostering national development. This book examines the fundamental importance of military affairs to social, economic, and political life throughout the borderlands and western frontiers.

Based on a series of interviews conducted by Mesoamericanists, this work is the biography of Mexico's award-winning archaeologist, Eduardo Matos Moctezuma. It demonstrates Eduardo's determination to recover Mexico's cultural past.

Examines the sport of rodeo, from a brief history of the ranch-based competition to the rodeos of today and what each event demands. This work addresses the treatment of the animals, pointing out that without the bulls or horses there wouldn't be a rodeo. It explains the workings and workers seen in the arena and behind the scenes.

Takes to task Montana's 1918 sedition law that shut down freedom of speech. The sedition law carried fines of up to $20,000 and imprisonment for as much as twenty years. It became a model for the federal sedition act passed in 1918. This book explores the assault on civil rights during times of war when dissent is perceived as unpatriotic.