Guides to
FBL Resources

This guide combines into one list many publications in the Fort Library on various aspects of Taos’ past and present. For students and faculty in the SMU-in-Taos program, this list provides a starting point for research. Many of the books cited on the other guides in this series include sections on Taos. Use PONI
to determine the call numbers for these titles and to find other books on your topic.

Categories in this guide:   History  |  Archaeology and Anthropology  |  Art, Architecture, Photography |  Literature
                                                 Natural Resources  |   Recreation and Travel  |  Social Life and Culture |   Biography

See also the other Library     Fort Burgwin and the Military in the West   |     New Mexico History   |
Guides in this series on:       Native Americans   |   Religion, Mythology and Folklore
 

 Community Profile from New Mexico Economic Development Department
          http://www.edd.state.nm.us/index.php?/data/C49/

HISTORY

Taos Indians
        Search subject Taos Indians in PONI for many more titles.
        See also guide in this series on Native Americans

Anthropological Data Pertaining to the Taos Land Claim (Ellis)
Many Winters: Prose and Poetry of the Pueblos (Wood)
Taos Indians and the Battle for Blue Lake
Taos Indians (Grant)
Taos Tales (Parsons)
Taos Pueblo (Wood)
Taos Pueblo: A Walk Through Time (Bodine)

But Time and Chance: the Story of Padre Martinez of Taos, 1793-1867
"Ciboleros: The Hispano Buffalo Hunters of Taos," (Padilla, Jerry A.),
    Ayer y Hoy en Taos, no. 28 (Fall 1999)
Forgotten People (Sanchez)
Land Grants and Lawsuits in Northern New Mexico
Land Grants in Taos Valley
The Mexican Frontier, 1821-1846: the American Southwest
On the Edge of Empire: The Taos Hacienda of los Martinez
Padre Martinez: New Perspectives from Taos
Ranchos de Taos: San Francisco de Asis Church
Spanish and Mexican Land Claims in the Taos Pueblo Region (Dunham)
Spanish Irrigation in the Taos Valley
"The Taos Tax Revolt of 1816," (Torrez, Robert J.), Ayer y Hoy en Taos,
    no. 27 (Spring 1999)

Death of a Governor [Bent]
Kit Carson (Gordon-McCutchan)
Kit Carson: A Pattern for Heroes (Guild)
Overland with Kit Carson
Taos Trappers (Weber)
To Possess the Land (biog. of Manby)
Tragedy at Taos: The Revolt of 1847
Wah-to-Yah and the Taos Trail (Garrard)

Other

Ayer y Hoy (published by Taos County Historical Society)
"Historic Roads and Trails to Taos," (Blumenschein, Helen G.), El Palacio,
    75:1 (Spring 1968)
Jaime in Taos: The Taos Papers of Jaime de Angulo
Sights and Sounds of Taos Valley (Blumenschein)
Taos Adobes (Bainbridge)
Taos, 1847: The Revolt in Contemporary Accounts
Taos: Landmarks and Legends
Taos Time Line (from Taos County Historical Society)
Taos Treasure (fiction; on the Penitentes)
Treasure of Taos: Tales of Northern New Mexico
Turbulent Taos
When Old Trails Were New: the Story of Taos (Grant)

Archeological Investigations in the Taos Valley (Jeancon, 1929)
Excavations at Pot Creek Pueblo (Wetherington, 1968)
Papers on Taos Archaeology (Herold, 1968)
Picuris Pueblo Through Time: Eight Centuries of Change at a Northern
    Rio Grande Pueblo (Adler, Michael, ed.)  in process
Studying the Taos Frontier: The Pot Creek Data Recovery
    Project (Boyer, 1994)
Taos Archeology (Woosley, 1980)
Valdez Phase Occupation near Taos, New Mexico (Green, 1976)

Bert Geer Phillips and the Taos Art Colony
Joseph A. Fleck, an Early Taos painter
Paintbrushes and Pistols: How the Taos Artists Sold the West
Patrocinio Barela: Taos Wood Carver
Pioneer Artists of Taos
Spirit and Vision: Images of the Ranchos de Taos Church
Taos Society of Artists

Edge of Taos Desert (Luhan)
D. H. Lawrence in Taos (excerpts from his writings influenced by Taos)
"Jump into the Ring at the Taos Poetry Circus," New Mexico Magazine,
    77:6 (June 1999)
Lorenzo in Taos
Santa Fe and Taos: the Writers’ Era, 1916-1941
Winter in Taos (Luhan)

NATURAL RESOURCES

County Profile, Taos County, New Mexico
"Land, Water, and Ethnic Identity in Taos," (Rodriquez, Sylvia) IN Land, Water and Culture
Minerals of New Mexico
Soil Survey of Taos County
Taos Resource Management Plan
Taos Ski Valley: Draft Environment Statement (1974)
Water Resources in Taos County, New Mexico (USGS, 1993)

Enchanted Circle: Loop Drives from Taos
Española-Chama-Taos: A Climb Through Time
Day Hikes in the Taos Area
Frommer’s Santa Fe, Taos and Albuquerque

Attitudes and Institutions of Taos, New Mexico: Variables for Value
    System Expression (Bodine, John J., 1967; Tulane Ph.D. thesis)
Enchantment and Colonization: Modernity and Lifestyle Migrants in a
    New Mexico Town (Martin, Arthur, 1998; UNM Ph.D. thesis)
"Ethnic Reconstruction in Contemporary Taos," (Rodriquez, Sylvia)  Journal of the
    Southwest, 32: 4 (1990)
"Lawrence, Mabel, and Utopia (Orrell, Herbert M.), New Mexico
    Magazine,  63:9 (September 1985)
Santa Fe and Taos, 1898-1942: An American Cultural Center,
Santa Fe and Taos Colonies: Age of the Muses, 1900-1942
Taos Mosaic  (author Claire Morrill owned the Taos Book Shop)
Taos: A Pictorial History
Taos: A Memory (author DeWit grew up in Taos in 1930s)
"The Tourist Gaze, Gentrification, and the Commodification of Subjectivity in Taos," (Rodriquez, Sylvia),IN  Essays on the Changing Images of the Southwest
Utopian Vistas: The Mabel Dodge Luhan House and the American
    Counterculture

In PONI, use name as subject to find biographies or other works about the following persons associated with Taos:

Barela, Patrocinio
Bent, Charles
Carson, Kit
Dunn, John
Fechin, Nicolai
Fleck, Joseph A.
Gorman, R. C.
Johnson, Walter Willard [Spud]
Lawrence, D. H.
Lawrence, Frieda
Luhan, Mabel Dodge
Manby, Arthur
Martinez, Antonio Jose [Padre]
Nichols, John Tredwell
O’Keeffe, Georgia
Phillips, Bert Geer
Waters, Frank