For students and faculty in the SMU-in-Taos program, this list of books in the Fort Library provides a starting point for research on women in Western history, women writers, and other activities and professions. Use PONI to determine the call numbers for these titles and to find other books on your topic.

Categories within this        Reference       |  Women in N.M.    |   Women in West/SW      |     Literature
Library Guide:

See also the Library Guides        Anthropology, Archaeology and Ethnology     |    Art: Architecture  |
in this series on:                              Art: Painting and Sculpture    |    Art: Photography    |    Biographies  |
                                                             Fort Burgwin and the Military in the West    |   Hispanos/Hispanic-Americans  |
                                                             Literature: D. H. Lawrence and Friends    |     Literature: Hispanic Writers  |
                                                             Literature: Native American Writers    |     Literature: New Mexico Writers  |
                                                             Native Americans   |     New Mexico History    |    Taos

Reference Books

A to Z of Native American Women (1998)
Daughters of the Desert: Women Anthropologists and the Native
    American Southwest, 1880-1980 (1988)
Native American Women: A Biographical Dictionary (1993)
Women’s Atlas of the United States (1995)

See also Reference Books section in guides in this series on     Hispanos/Hispanic-Americans    |    Native Americans

Women in New Mexico

Bridges: New Mexican Black Women, 1900-1950
First Ladies of New Mexico
[Las] Mujeres: Conversations from a Hispanic Community
New Mexico Women: Intercultural Perspectives
New Mexico Women:  See special issues of New Mexico Historical Review,
    57:4 (October 1982) and  65:2 (April 1990)
Nuestras Mujeres: Hispanas of New Mexico … 1582-1992
Refusing the Favor: Spanish-Mexican Women of Santa Fe, 1820-1880
Sabino’s Map (a woman of Chimayó)
Social Housekeepers: Women Shaping Public Policy in New Mexico, 1920-1940
Standing By and Making Do: Women of Wartime Los Alamos
Tribute to the Women in Santa Fe
Women of New Mexico: Depression Era Images
Women and Los Alamos
Women of the New Mexico Frontier, 1846-1912

Women in the West/Southwest

American Indian Women, Telling Their Lives
Army Letters from an Officer’s Wife
American Women Afield: Writings by Pioneering Women Naturalists
Bloodlines: A Native Daughter’s Odyssey (Janet Campbell Hale)
Harvey Girls: Women Who Opened the West
Hidden Scholars: Woman Anthropologists and the Native American Southwest
Housewife by the Rio Grande
[See] Journal of the West, special issue, XII:2 (April 1973)
Latina: Women’s Voice from the Borderlands
"Leading Women Scientists in the American Southwest: A Demographic
      Portrait, 1900-1950,"  New Mexico Historical Review, 68:1 (Jan. 1993), pp. 41-62.
Messengers of the Wind: Native American Women Tell Their Life Stories
A Mine of Her Own: Women Prospectors in the American West, 1850-1950.
National Parks and the Woman’s Voice: A History
One Foot on the Rockies: Women and Creativity in the Modern American West
A Quilt of Words: Women’s Diaries, Letters, and Original Accounts of Life
    in the Southwest, 1860-1960
Scalpel and the Silver Bear (about Dr. Lori Alvord, Navajo surgeon)
So Much to Be Done: Women Settlers on the Mining and Ranching Frontier
Western Women, Their Land, Their Lives
Wisdom’s Daughters: Conversations with Women Elders of Native America
Woman's Way (Native American)
Women and Indians on the Frontier, 1825-1915.
Women Artists and Writers of the Southwest
Women in American Indian Society
Women of the Apache Nation
Women of the Native Struggle
"Women on the Santa Fe Trail: Diaries, Journals, Memoirs: An Annotated
    Bibliography," (Simmons, Marc), New Mexico Historical Review, 61:3 (July 1986)
Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey
Women’s Voices from the Borderlands (Hispanic women)
Women's West

Literature