BIOGRAPHIES
For students and faculty in the SMU-in-Taos
program, this list of persons and titles of collective biographies in the
Fort Library provides a starting point for those seeking biographical information
on notables in the Southwest. Use PONI to determine the call numbers for
these titles or to find other biographies. (Birth-Death dates,
if available, from Biography
and Genealogy Master Index (click and select from list).
Categories with in this guide:
Anthropology | Art
| History | Literature
| Other |
Native Americans (20th century) | Collective
Biography
Anthropology, Archaeology, Ethnology
See also Library Guide in this series on Archaeology, Anthropology, and Ethnology
Bandelier, Adolphe Francis Alphonse
(1840-1914)
Boas, Franz (1858-1942)
Cushing, Frank H. (1879-1884)
Hewett, Edgar (1865-1946)
Morris, Earl H. (1899-1956)
Lister, Robert H. (1915-1990)
and Florence
Parsons, Elsie Clews (1874-1941)
Wetherill, Benjamin Alfred
(1861-1950) and Hilda (1890-d.)
Wetherill, Marietta (1876-1954)
See Library Guides in this series
on Art:
Architecture | Art:
Painting and Sculpture | Art:
Photography
New Mexico History |
Taos
See also Library Guide in this series on New Mexico History
Baca, Elfego (1864-1945; NM
lawman)
Becknell, William (1787 (8?)-1856;
pioneer trader on Santa Fe Trail)
Bent, Charles (1799-1847; U.S.
Territorial Governor of New Mexico)
Bent, George (1826-1875; trader,
Bent's Fort; half-brother of Charles Bent)
Buffalo Bill (1846-1917)
Carson, Kit (1804-1868; scout)
Catron, Thomas Benton (1840-1921)
Crook, George (1829-1890; U.S.
Army general)
Curry, George (1861-1947; N.M.
governor)
Custer, George Armstrong (1839-1876)
Cutting, Bronson N. (1888-1935;
U.S. senator from N.M.)
Dunn, John (1857-1953; owned
Taos freight company)
Felsenthal, Louis (1932-1909;
citizen-soldier in territorial N.M.)
Garrett, Pat (1850-1908; western
lawman)
Gregg, Josiah (1806-1850; pioneer)
Lamy, John Baptist (1814-1888;
archbishop)
Lummis, Charles (1859-1928;
journalist)
Manby, Arthur R. (1859-1929;
Taos speculator)
Martinez, Antonio Jose [Padre]
(1793-1867)
Otero, Miguel Antonio (1859-1944;
pioneer, N.M. governor)
Powell, John Wesley (1834-1902;
explorer of Colorado River)
Shuster, Will H. (1893-1969;
artist)
Wootten, Dick (1816-1893; pioneer
frontiersman)
See also other Library Guides in this series on Literature--Native American Writers | Literature--New Mexico Writers
Austin, Mary (1868-1934)
Bynner, Witter (1881-1968)
Cather, Willa (1873-1947)
Fergusson, Harvey (1890-1971)
Horgan, Paul (1903-1995)
Hillerman, Tony (1925-- )
Johnson, Walter Willard (Spud)
(1897-1968)
Luhan, Mabel Dodge (1879-1962)
Lawrence, D.H. (1885-1930)
Lawrence, Frieda (1879-1956)
McNickle, D'Arcy (1904-1977)
Momaday, N. Scott (1934-- )
Waters, Frank (1902-1995)
Native Americans (20th century)
See also other Library Guides in this series on Literature--Native American Writers | Native Americans
Campbell, Ben Nighthorse (1933-
; U. S. Senator from Colorado)
Gorman, Carl (1907-1998; Navajo
artist, Code Talker in WWII, father of R.C.)
Gorman, R. C. (1932- ; Navajo
artist)
Hale, Janet Campbell (1946
[7?]- ; Skitswish author)
McNickle, D'Arcy (1904-1977;
author)
Mankiller, Wilma (1945- ; former
[1985-1995] principal chief of the Cherokee Nation)
Martinez, Maria (188?-1980;
San Ildefonso potter)
Means, Russell (1939- ; Native
American activist)
Momaday, N. Scott (1934- ;
author)
Sitting Bull (1834?-1890; Sioux
Chief)
Tafoya, Margaret (1904- ?;
Tewa potter)
Bolton, Herbert E. (1870-1953;
historian)
Donoho, Mary (1807-1880; pioneer
on Santa Fe Trail)
Fergusson, Erna (1888-1964,
Southwest historian)
Gilpin, William (1822-1894;
Western nationalist)
Jackson, Helen Hunt (1830-1885;
early advocate for Native Americans)
King, Clarence (1842-1901;
Colorado geologist)
Maxwell, Martha (1831-1881;
Rocky Mountain naturalist)
Meem, John Gaw (1894- 1983;
architect and historic preservationist)
Muir, John (1838-1914; naturalist)
Otero-Warren, Nina (1881-1965)
Collective Biography (selected examples)
A to Z of Native American
Women
American Indian Women Telling
Their Lives
Bridges: New Mexico Black
Women, 1900-1950
Daughters of the Desert:
Women Anthropologists and the Native American
Southwest,
1880-1980
Encyclopedia of Native American
Biography
From Martyrs to Murderers:
The Old Southwest’s Saints, Sinners and Scalawags
Indian Lives: Essays on
Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Native-American Leaders
Living Biographies of Famous
Men
Mountain Men and Fur Traders
of the Far West
Native American Autobiography:
An Anthology
101 Men and Women of New
Mexico
Pioneer Artists of Taos
Pioneers of American Archaeology
These Were the Valiant:
a Collection of New Mexico Profiles
Trappers of the Far West
Women of the Native Struggle