Suggested Reading List New Mexico History Compiled by the New Mexico Historic Sites Southern Region Staff (Updated 1/2020)

Primary Sources

Agnew, S.C. Garrisons of the Regular U.S. Army: New Mexico, 1846-1899. Santa Fe: The Press of the Territorian, 1971.

Chávez, Fray Angélico. My Penitente Land: Reflections on Spanish New Mexico. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1974.

Dawson, William D. New Mexico in 1876-1877: A Newspaperman’s View, The Travels & Reports of William D. Dawson. Edited by Robert J. Tórrez. Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, NM: Rio Grande Books, 2007.

Faunce, Hilda. Desert Wife. Frank Waters, ed. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1981.

Granjon, Henry. Along the Rio Grande: A Pastoral Visit to Southwest New Mexico in 1902. Edited by Michael R. Taylor. Translated by Mary Wade López. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press/Historical Society of New Mexico, 1986.

Gregg, Josiah. Commerce of the Prairies. Edited by Milo Milton Quaife. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1967.

Keleher, William A. Memories: Episodes in New Mexico History, 1892-1969. Facsimile of 1969 Edition, edited by Marc Simmons. Santa Fe: Sunstone Press, 2008.

Kessell, John L. and Rick Hendricks, eds. By Force of Arms: The Journals of Don Diego de Vargas, New Mexico, 1691-93. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992.

Lane, Lydia Spencer. I Married a Soldier, or Old Days in the Old Army. London: Forgotten Books, 2012.

Marcy, Randolph B. The Prairie Traveler. Bedford, MA: Applewood Books, 1859.

McBride, James J., ed. Children of Fort Stanton, 2nd edition. Santa Fe, NM: Paper Tiger, 2009.

O’Donnell, Joan K., ed. Here, Now, and Always: Voices of the First Peoples of the Southwest. Santa Fe, NM: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2001.

Niederman, Sharon. A Quilt of Words: Women’s Diaries, Letters & Original Accounts of Life in the Southwest, 1860-1960. Boulder, CO: Johnson Publishing Company, 1988.

Russell, Marian. Land of Enchantment: Memoirs of Marian Russell Along the Santa Fe Trail. Marc Simmons, ed. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1981.

General

Airy, Helen. Whatever Happened to Billy the Kid? Santa Fe, NM: Sunstone Press, 1993.

Alexander, Bob. Dangerous Dan Tucker: New Mexico’s Deadly Lawman. Silver City, NM: High- Lonesome Books, 2001.

Anderson, H. Allen. “The Encomienda in New Mexico, 1598-1680.” New Mexico Historical Review 60 (October 1985): 353-77.

Arellano, Juan Estevan. Enduring Acequias: Wisdom of the Land, Knowledge of the Water. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2014.

Ashcroft, Bruce. The Territorial History of Socorro, New Mexico. El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1988.

Bannon, John Francis. The Spanish Borderlands Frontier, 1513-1821. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1979.

Bauer, K. Jack. The Mexican War, 1846-1848. New York: Macmillan, 1974.

Burton, E.B. “Texas Raiders in New Mexico in 1843.” Old Santa Fe 2 (April 1915): 407-29.

Caperton, Thomas J. Rogue!: Being an Account of the Life and High Times of Stephen W. Dorsey, United States Senator and New Mexico Cattle Baron. Santa Fe, NM: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1978.

Chávez, Fray Angélico. Origins of New Mexico Families in the Spanish Colonial Period. 1954. Reprint. Santa Fe: Gannon, 1975.

Chilton, Lance, Katherine Chilton, Polly E. Arango, James Dudley, Nancy Neary, and Patricia Stelzner. New Mexico: A New Guide to the Colorful State. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1984.

Cline, Donald. Alias Billy the Kid: The Man Behind the Legend. Santa Fe, NM: Sunstone Press, 1986.

Cline, Howard F. Spanish and Mexican Land Grants in New Mexico, 1689-1848: A Technical Report. New York: Clearwater Publishing, 1964.

Colton, Ray C. The Civil War in the Western Territories: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1959.

Craig, Richard B. The Bracero Program: Interest Groups and Foreign Policy. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1971.

Ellis, Florence Hawley. When Cultures Meet: Remembering San Gabriel del Yungue Oweenge. Santa Fe: Sunstone Press, 1987.

Engstrand, Iris Wilson. “Land Grant Problems in the Southwest: The Spanish and Mexican Heritage.” New Mexico Historical Review 53 (October 1978): 317-36.

Freiberger, Harriet. Lucien Maxwell: Villain or Visionary. Santa Fe, NM: Sunstone Press, 1999.

Hamm, Ron. The Bursums of New Mexico: Four Generations of Leadership and Service. Socorro, NM: Manzanares Street Publishing, 2012.

Harris, Linda G. Ghost Towns Alive: Trips to New Mexico’s Past. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003.

Hordes, Stanley M. and Carol Joiner. Historical Markers in New Mexico, eds. Santa Fe, NM: Delgado Studios, 1984.

Hunner, Jon. Inventing Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004.

Jenkins, Myra Ellen and Albert H. Schroeder. A Brief History of New Mexico. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1974.

Jackson, Hal. Following the Royal Road: A Guide to the Historic Camino Real de Tierra Adentro. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006.

Julyan, Robert. The Mountains of New Mexico. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006.

Keleher, William A. The Fabulous Frontier, 1846-1912. Facsimile of 1962 Edition, edited by Marc Simmons. Santa Fe: Sunstone Press, 2008.

Keleher, William A. The Fabulous Frontier: Twelve New Mexico Items. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1962.

Keleher, William A. Maxwell Land Grant. Facsimile of 1942 Edition, edited by Marc Simmons. Santa Fe: Sunstone Press, 2008.

Keleher, William A. Turmoil in New Mexico, 1846-1868. Facsimile of 1952 Edition, edited by Marc Simmons. Santa Fe: Sunstone Press, 2008.

Keleher, William A. Violence in Lincoln County, 1869-1881. Facsimile of 1957 Edition, edited by Marc Simmons. Santa Fe: Sunstone Press, 2007.

Killingsworth, M. Jimmie and Jacqueline S. Palmer. Nuclear New Mexico: A Historical, Natural, and Virtual Tour. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2018.

Kiser, William S. Turmoil on the Rio Grande: The Territorial History of the Mesilla Valley, 1846-1865. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2011.

Lecompte, Janet. Rebellion in Río Arriba. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1985.

Lummis, Charles J. The Land of Poco Tiempo. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1952.

Malone, Michael P. and Richard W. Etulain. The American West: A Twentieth-Century History. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989.

McFie, Maude Elizabeth (Bloom). A History of the Mesilla Valley – 1903. Lansing B. Bloom and Jo Tice Bloom, editors. Las Cruces, NM: Yucca Tree Press, 1999.

Mora, Anthony. Border Dilemmas: Racial and National Uncertainties in New Mexico, 1848-1912. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011.

Murphy, Lawrence R. Lucien Bonaparte Maxwell: Napoleon of the Southwest. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1983.

Nieto-Phillips, John M. The Language of Blood: The Making of Spanish-American Identity in New Mexico, 1880s-1930s. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004.

Owen, Gordon. Las Cruces New Mexico 1849-1999: Multicultural Crossroads. Las Cruces, NM: Red Sky Publishing Company, Inc., 1999.

Owen, Gordon R. The Two Alberts: Fountain and Fall. Las Cruces, NM: Yucca Tree Press, 1996.

Pacheco, Ana. J. Paul Taylor: The Man from Mesilla. Las Cruces, NM: New Mexico State University Press.

Padilla, Carmella and Donna Pierce. A Brief History of New Mexico and the Spanish Colonial World. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press.

Pike, David. Roadside New Mexico: A Guide to Historic Markers. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2015.

Price, Paxton Pate. The Santa Fe’s Rincon: Lived and Died on the Line. Las Cruces, NM: New Mexico State University, 2001.

Radford, Benjamin. Mysterious New Mexico: Miracles, Magic, and Monsters in the Land of Enchantment. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2014.

Recko, Cory. Murder on the White Sands: The Disappearance of Albert and Henry Fountain. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2007.

Roberts, Calvin A. and Susan A. Roberts. A History of New Mexico, 3rd revised edition. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004.

Sanchez, Joseph P. The Rio Abajo Frontier, 1540-1692: A History of Early Colonial New Mexico. Albuquerque: Albuquerque Museum, 1987.

Sánchez, Joseph P., Robert L. Spude, and Art Gómez. New Mexico: A History. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2013.

Sherman, James E. and Barbara Sherman. Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of New Mexico. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1975.

Simmons, Marc. New Mexico!, 3rd revised edition. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004.

Simmons, Mark. New Mexico: An Interpretive History. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1988.

Sutter, L.M. New Mexico Baseball: Miners, Outlaws, Indians and Isotopes, 1880 to the Present. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2010.

Szasz, Ferenc Morton. The Day the Sun Rose Twice: The Story of the Trinity Site Nuclear Explosion July 16, 1945. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1984.

Taylor, Mary Daniels. A Place as Wild as the West Ever Was—Mesilla, New Mexico: 1848-1872. Las Cruces, NM: New Mexico State University Museum, 2004.

Torok, George D. From the Pass to the Pueblos: El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail. Santa Fe: Sunstone Press, 2012.

Utley, Robert M. Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989.

Utley, Robert M. High Noon in Lincoln: Violence on the Western Frontier. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987.

Vestal, Stanley. The Old Santa Fe Trail. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996.

Wadsworth, Richard. Forgotten Fortress: Fort Millard Fillmore and Antebellum New Mexico, 1851- 1862. Las Cruces, NM: Yucca Tree Press, 2002.

Wadsworth, Richard. Incident at San Augustine Springs: A Hearing for Major Isaac Lynde. Las Cruces, NM: Yucca Tree Press, 2002.

Warren, Nancy Hunter. New Mexico Style: A Source Book of Traditional Architectural Details. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1986.

Weber, David J. The Mexican Frontier1821-1846: The American Southwest Under Mexico. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1982.

Weigle, Marta, Frances Levine, and Louise Stiver, eds. Telling New Mexico: A New History. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2008.

Werne, Joseph Richard. The Imaginary Line: A History of the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey, 1848-1857. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 2007.

Wilson, Chris. The Myth of Santa Fe: Creating a Modern Regional Tradition. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003.

Work Projects Administration, State of New Mexico. The WPA Guide to 1930s New Mexico, Compiled by the Workers of the Writers’ Program of the Works Projects Administration in the State of New Mexico. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1989.

Worcester, Donald E. “The Significance of the Spanish Borderlands to the United States.” Western Historical Quarterly 7 (January 1976): 5-18.

Indigenous Peoples

Beckett, Patrick H. and Terry L. Corbett. The Manso Indians. Las Cruces, NM: COAS Publishing and Research, 1992.

Beninato, Stefanie. “Pope, Pose-yemu, and Naranjo: A New Look at Leadership in the Pueblo Revolt of 1680.” New Mexico Historical Review 65 (October 1990): 417-35.

Blazer, Almer N. Santana: War Chief of the Mescalero Apache. Edited by A.R. Pruit. Taos, NM: Dog Soldier Press, 1999.

Bowden, Henry Warner. “Spanish Missions, Cultural Conflict and the Pueblo Revolt of 1680.” Church History 44 (June 1975): 217-28.

Bullard, William Rotch, Jr. “Pit-House Architecture in the Southwestern United States Prior to A.D. 900….” Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 1960.

Bussey, Stanley Dowlen. “Late Mogollon Manifestations in the Mimbres Branch, Southwestern New Mexico.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Oregon, 1972.

Carr, Pat. Mimbres Mythology. El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1979.

Cobblestone Magazine. Geronimo and the Apache Indians. Petersborough, NH: Cobblestone Publishing, Inc., 1996.

Gunnerson, Dolores A. “The Southern Athabascans: Their Arrival in the Southwest.” El Palacio 63 (November-December 1956): 346-65.

Knaut, Andrew L. The Pueblo Revolt of 1680: Conquest and Resistance in Seventeenth-Century New Mexico. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995.

LeBlanc, Steven A. The Mimbres People: Ancient Pueblo Painters of the American Southwest. London & New York: Thames and Hudson, 1983.

Longacre, William A., ed. Reconstructing Prehistoric Pueblo Societies. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1970.

Matson, R.G. The Origins of Southwestern Agriculture. Tucson: University of Arizona Pres, 1991.

Ortiz, Alfonso. The Tewa World: Space, Time, Being, and Becoming in a Pueblo Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969.

Sando, Joe. Pueblo Nations: Eight Centuries of Pueblo Indian History. Santa Fe: Clear Light Publishers, 1991.

Thomas, Alfred Barnaby. The Mescalero Apache, 1653-1874. New York: Garland Publishing, 1974.

Whiteford, Andrew Hunter, et al. I Am Here: Two Thousand Years of Southwest Indian Arts and Culture. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1989.

Will, Wirt Henry, III. “Early Agriculture in the Mogollon Highlands of New Mexico.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Michigan, 1985.

Women

Cook, Mary J. Straw. Doña Tules: Santa Fe’s Courtesan and Gambler. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007.

Foote, Cheryl J. Women of the New Mexico Frontier, 1846-1912. Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1990.

Jensen, Joan M. and Darlis A. Miller, eds. New Mexico Women: Intercultural Perspectives. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986.

Rebolledo, Tey Diana and María Teresa Márquez. Women’s Tales from the New Mexico WPA: La Diabla a Pie. Houston: Arte Público Press, 2000.

Art

Cirillo, Dexter. Across Frontiers: Hispanic Crafts of New Mexico. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1998.

Coulter, Lane and Maurice Dixon, Jr. New Mexican Tinwork, 1840-1940. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1990.

Mather, Christine, ed. Colonial Frontiers: Art & Life in Spanish New Mexico, The Fred Harvey Collection. Santa Fe, NM: Ancient City Press, 1983.

Mera, H.P. Spanish-American Blanketry: Its relationship to aboriginal weaving in the Southwest. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, 1987.

McQuiston, Don and Debra. The Woven Spirit of the Southwest. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1995.

Montaño, Mary. Tradiciones Nuevomexicanas: Hispano Arts and Culture of New Mexico. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2001.

Pierce, Donna and Marta Weigle, eds. Spanish New Mexico: The Spanish Colonial Arts Society Collection, Vol. 1: The Arts of Spanish New Mexico. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1996.

Pierce, Donna and Marta Weigle, eds. Spanish New Mexico: The Spanish Colonial Arts Society Collection, Vol. 2: Hispanic Arts in the Twentieth Century. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1996.

Salkeld, Stefani. Southwest Weaving: A Continuum. San Diego: San Diego Museum of Man, 1996.

Religion

Boyd, Elizabeth. Saints and Saintmakers of New Mexico. Santa Fe: Laboratory of Anthropology, 1946.

Francis, E.K. “Padre Martínez: A New Mexican Myth.” New Mexico Historical Review 31 (October 1956): 265-89.

Keleher, Julia and Elsie Ruth Chant. The Padre of Isleta: The Story of Father Anton Docher. Facsimile of the 1940 Edition, edited by Michael L. Keleher. Santa Fe: Sunstone Press, 2009.

Miller, Michael. Monuments of Adobe: The Religious Architecture and Traditions of New Mexico. Dallas: Taylor Publishing, 1991.

Puckett, Fidela Miller. “Ramon Ortiz: Priest and Patriot.” New Mexico Historical Review 25 (October 1950): 265-95.

Rakocy, Bill. Great Missions of the Southwest. El Paso: El Paso Museum of Art, 1987.

Steele, Thomas J. Santos and Saints: The Religious Folk Art of Hispanic New Mexico. 1974. Reprint. Santa Fe: Ancient City Press, 1982.

Weigle, Marta. Brothers of Light, Brothers of Blood: The Penitentes of the Southwest. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1976.

Trade and Commerce

Beck, Warren A. and Ynez D. Haase. Historical Atlas of New Mexico, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1969.

Colton, Harold S. “Prehistoric Trade in the Southwest.” Scientific Monthly 52 (1941): 309-319.

DiPeso, Charles C. “Casas Grandes and the Gran Chichimeca.” El Palacio 75, no. 4 (1968).

Duffus, R.L. The Santa Fe Trail. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1972.

Gerrard, Lewis H. Wah-to-Yah and the Taos Trail. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1955.

Hafen, LeRoy and Ann Hafen. The Old Spanish Trail. Glendale: Arthur H. Clark, 1955.

Martin, Gene and Mary Martin. Trail Dust: A Quick Picture History of the Santa Fe Trail. Manitou Springs, CO: Martin Associates, 1972.

McNitt, Frank. The Indian Traders. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1962.

Moorhead, Max L. New Mexico’s Royal Road: Trade and Travel on the Chihuahua Trail. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1958.

Snow, David H. “Prehistoric Southwestern Turquoise Industry.” El Palacio 79, no. 1 (1973).

Weber, David J. The Taos Trappers: The Fur Trade in the Far Southwest, 1540-1846. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1971.

Military

Billington, Monroe. “Black Soldiers at Fort Selden, New Mexico, 1866-1891.” New Mexico Historical Review 62 (January 1987): 65-80.

Billington, Monroe Lee. New Mexico’s Buffalo Soldiers: 1866-1900. Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado, 1991.

Colton, Ray C. The Civil War in the Western Territories: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1959.

Edrington, Thomas S. and John Taylor. The Battle of Glorieta Pass: A Gettysburg in the West, March 26- 28, 1862. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998.

Gregg, Andy. Drums of Yesterday: The Forts of New Mexico. Santa Fe, NM: The Press of The Territorian, 1968.

Hall, Martin Hardwick. Sibley’s New Mexico Campaign. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000.

Holmes, Allan J. Fort Selden, 1865-1891: The Birth, Life, and Death of a Frontier Fort in New Mexico. Santa Fe: Sunstone Press, 2010.

Taylor, John. Bloody Valverde: A Civil War Battle on the Rio Grande, February 21, 1862. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995.

Welsome, Eileen. The General & the Jaguar: Pershing’s Hunt for Pancho Villa, A True Story of Revolution & Revenge.

References Materials:

Beck, Warren A. and Ynez D. Haase. Historical Atlas of New Mexico. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1969.

Chávez, Fray Angélico. Archives of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, 1678-1900. Washington, D.C.: Academy of American Franciscan History, 1957.

Hertzog, Peter, comp. A Directory of New Mexico Desperados. Santa Fe: Press of the Territorian, 1965.

Hunner, Jon. A Selective Bibliography of New Mexico History. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.

Tully, Marjorie F. and Juan B. Rael. An Annotated Bibliography of Spanish Folklore in New Mexico and Southern Colorado. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1950.