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New Mexico History

For students and faculty in the SMU-in-Taos program, this list of books and journal articles in the Fort Library provides suggestions for research in several areas of New Mexico history. Use PONI to determine the call numbers for these titles and to find other books on your topic. Journals are shelved alphabetically by title, without call numbers.

Reference Books

Borderlands Sourcebook: A Guide to the Literature on Northern Mexico
and the American Southwest (1983)
Historical Atlas of New Mexico (1969)
Landmarks of New Mexico (Hewett, 1953)
New Mexico Bluebook, 1598-1998
Place Names of New Mexico (1996)
Profile of a State: New Mexico (1964)
Registered Places in New Mexico (1995)
Sources for New Mexico History, 1821-1848 (1984)

General

In PONI, search Albuquerque and Santa Fe as subjects for books on city history; see also library guide in this
series on Towns in New Mexico and New Mexico Historical Review , El Palacio, and the Journal of the
Southwest (all indexed in America: History and Life online. In Fort Library, see also tables of contents binders
shelved with journal).

Brief History of New Mexico Heroic Triad: Essays in the Social Energies
of Three Southwestern Cultures
History of the Jews in New Mexico
It Happened in New Mexico
Lore of New Mexico
New Mexico (Roberts)
New Mexico, a History of Four Centuries
New Mexico, from Arrowhead to Atom
New Mexico, Land of Many Cultures
New Mexico, Past and Present
New Mexico: The Shining Land (Sinclair)
New Mexico Courthouses
Illustrated History of New Mexico
101 Men and Women of New Mexico
Spell of New Mexico
WPA Guide to 1930s New Mexico

Early History/Native Peoples

See also other Library Guides in this series on Anthropology, Archaeology, and Ethnology | Native Americans

Dynamics of Southwest Prehistory
Prehistoric New Mexico
Indian Rock Art of the Southwest
"Down Under Influence: Measuring Mesoamerica's Impact on New
Mexico's Early Civilizations," (Sharp, Jay W.), New Mexico Magazine, 77:10 (October 1999)

Spanish Colonial Period

Coronado’s Land: Essays on Daily Life in Colonial New Mexico
Juan de Oñate’s Colony in the Wilderness
Legal Culture of Northern New Spain, 1700-1810
Let There be Towns: Spanish Municipal Origins in the American
    Southwest, 1610-1810
On the Edge of Empire: the Taos Hacienda of los Martinez
"On the Trail of the Real Diego de Vargas," (Kessell, John L.), New Mexico
    Magazine, 63:9, (September 1985)
Padre Martinez: New Perspectives from Taos
[El] Palacio [magazine], 102: 2 (Winter/Spring 1997]; special issue on Oñate
    Cuartocentenario, 1598-1998
Pueblo Revolt of 1680
Pueblo Warriors and Spanish Conquest
Spanish Borderlands Sourcebook
    v. 9-10: The Native American and Spanish Colonial Experience in the Greater Southwest
    v. 12: Earliest Hispanic/Native American Interactions in the American Southwest
Spanish Colonial Era: See special issue of New Mexico Historical Review,
    64:3 (July 1989)
Spanish Government in New Mexico
"The Spanish Legacy in North America and the Historical Imagination,"
    (Weber, David J.), Western Historical Quarterly, 23:1 (February 1992)
Traditional Arts in Spanish New Mexico
"Changing Pueblo Pottery Tradition: The Underside of Economic Development
    in Late Colonial New Mexico, 1750-1820," (Frank, Ross H.), Journal of
    the Southwest, 33:3 (Autumn 1991)
"Coronado's Crosses: Route Markers Used by the Coronado Expedition," (Flint,
    Richard and Flint, Shirley Cushing), Journal of the Southwest, 35:2
    (Summer 1993)

Land Grants

Anatomy of a Land Grab: the Una de Gato Grant
Baltasar Baca "Grant": History of an Encroachment
Land Grants and Lawsuits in Northern New Mexico
Land Grants in Taos Valley
Maxwell Land Grant
The Tierra Amarilla Land Grant: A History of Chicanery

Lincoln County/Billy the Kid/Pat Garrett

Authentic Life of Billy the Kid (Garrett, Pat)
Four Fighters of Lincoln County
High Noon in Lincoln
Lincoln County Diary
Lincoln County War: A Documentary History
Pat Garrett: The Story of a Western Lawman
Pecos Ranchers in the Lincoln County War
Anything for Billy (novel by Larry McMurtry)

Military -- Civil War

Antislavery in the Southwest: William. G. Kephart's Mission to New
    Mexico, 1850-53
Birth of Colorado, a Civil War Perspective
Blood and Treasure: Confederate Empire in the Southwest
Bloody Valverde: A Civil War Battle on the Rio Grande
Civil War in the Western Territories
Colorado Volunteers in the Civil War: the New Mexico Campaign
    in 1862 (Battle of Glorieta)
Confederate General of the West: Henry Hopkins Sibley
"Failure of the Confederate Invasion" in New Mexico, Past and
    Present: A Historical Reader.
Louis Felsenthal, Citizen-soldier of Territorial New Mexico
"Taosenos also Defended the Union," Ayer y Hoy, no. 14 (winter 1992)

Military, other

See Library Guide in this series on Fort Burgwin and the Military in the West

Mining

"Changing Faces of a Mining Town: The Dual Labor System in Elizabethtown,
New Mexico (Loosbrock, Richard D.), New Mexico Historical Review,
74:4 (October 1999)
Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of New Mexico
Ghost Towns of the Southwest
Mining. Special issue of New Mexico Historical Review, 69:4 (October 1994)
Navajo Salt Gathering
Placer Gold Deposits in New Mexico
The Red River-Twining Area: A New Mexico Mining Story
"Santa Rita del Cobre," New Mexico Magazine, 63:3 (March 1985)
Story of Mining in New Mexico
Western Mining

Railroads

See library guide in this series on Railroads

Ranching

Bell Ranch: Cattle Ranching in the Southwest, 1924-1947
" Cowboys: A Review Essay," (Hall, Thomas D.), Journal of the Southwest,
35:1 (spring 1992)
"Enduring Cowboys: Life Continues in the New Mexico Saddle," (Vigil, Arnold),
New Mexico Magazine, 77:10 (October 1999)
Grant of Kingdom: a novel
Heart-Diamond (ranching in Southwest NM)
I See by my Getup (Querry)
Last Cowboy: Closing the Open Range in Southeast New Mexico 1890s-1920s.
Memoirs of a Cowboy Writer (John Sinclair)
No Place for a Lady (Cleveland)
Trampling Herd: the Story of the Cattle Range in America (Wellman)

20th Century

Building New Mexico (labor)
Coming of Age in the Great Depression: The Civilian Conservation Corps Experience
in New Mexico, 1933-1942 (2000)
Contemporary New Mexico, 1940-1990
Essays in Twentieth-Century New Mexico History
Indian Arts and Crafts Board: An Aspect of New Deal Indian Policy
Labor in New Mexico (pub. 1983)
New Deal in the Southwest: Arizona and New Mexico
Preservation of the Village: New Mexico’s Hispanics and the New Deal
Women of New Mexico: the Depression Era Images
WPA Guide to the 1930s in New Mexico

Water Issues

[las] Acequias del Norte (2 v.)
Forging New Rights in Western Waters
Groundwater Policy in the Southwest (1985)
"Illusions of Choice in the Indian Irrigation Service," (McGuire, Thomas R.),
    Journal of the Southwest, 30:2 (Summer 1988)
Irrigation in the Rio Grande Valley
Journal of the Southwest, vol. 32, no 3 (autumn 1990); special issue on water
    in New Mexico.
"Land and Water Rights in New Spain," (Taylor, William B.), New Mexico
    Historical Review, 50:3 (July 1975)
Land, Water and Culture, New Perspectives on Hispanic Land Grants
Mayordomo: Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New Mexico
Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West
Rules and Regulations Governing Drilling of Wells… (1966)
Water in the Hispanic Southwest
Water Politics: Continuity and Change
"The Community Value of Water," (Brown, F. Lee and Ingram, Helen),
    Journal of the Southwest, 29:2 (Summer 1987)
"’Fantastical Assumptions’: A Centennial Overview of Water Use in
    New Mexico," (Norton, Hana Samek), New Mexico Historical Review,
    73:4 (October 1998).
"The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo as a Living Document: Water and Land
    Use Issues in Northern New Mexico," (Meyer, Michael C. and Brescia,
    Michael M.), New Mexico Historical Review, 73:4 (October 1998).
"Underground Water in Hispanic New Mexico: A Brief Analysis of Laws,
    Customs, and Disputes," (Tyler, Daniel), New Mexico Historical
    Review, 66:3 (July 1991)
"The United States Army Corps of Engineers in the Middle Rio Grande Valley,
    1935-1955," (Welsh, Michael), New Mexico Historical Review, 60:3 (July 1985)

World War II/Los Alamos/The Bomb

See also the library guide in this series on New Mexico and the Atomic Age

Behind Tall Fences
Children of Los Alamos
City of Fire: Los Alamos and the Atomic Age, 1943-1945
Contributions of New Mexico’s Mineral Industry to World War II
The Day the Sun Rose Twice (Trinity Site)
"German and Italian Prisoners of War in Albuquerque, 1943-1946," (Doyle,
    Susan Badger), New Mexico Historical Review, 66:3 (July 1991)
The House at Otowi Bridge: The Story of Edith Warner and Los Alamos
Los Alamos and the Development of the Atomic Bomb
"Mining the Atom: The Cold War Comes to the Colorado Plateau,"
    (Fernlund, Kevin J.) , New Mexico Historical Review, 69:4 (October 1994)
On Rims and Ridges: The Los Alamos Story since 1880
"POWs in New Mexico, 1942-1946," (Spidle, Jake W.), New Mexico Historical Review, XLIX:2 (April 1974)
Secret Mesa: Inside Los Alamos National Laboratory
Trinity’s Children: Living Along America’s Nuclear Highway
"Trouble at the Lordsburg Internment Camp," (Culley, John J.), New Mexico
    Historical Review, 60:3 (July 1985)
Victory in World War II: The New Mexico Story
Warriors: Navajo Code Talkers
Welcome to Los Alamos
Winds of Freedom (Navajo code talkers)
Women and Los Alamos

Other (contemporary life)

Enchanted Lifeways: History, Museums, Arts and Festivals of New Mexico
Enchantment and Exploitation: the Life and Hard Times of a New
Mexico Mountain Range
Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm
River of Traps: A Village Life
Good Life: New Mexico Traditions and Food

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