A Chaco Canyon Reading List
WHEN EDUCATOR Jon Ghahate (Laguna/Zuni) guides tours through Chaco Culture National Historical Park, he likes to have references on hand, but he also hopes people will explore opportunities to deepen…
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Tag: Books
What We’re Reading: I Am Agatha
IN HER DEBUT NOVEL, I Am Agatha (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster), Nancy Foley channels the distinctive rhythms of a famous artist’s interior monologue. Inspired by a rumored packet of destroyed…
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What We’re Reading: The Llano County Mermaid Club
KATHLEEN M. RODGERS’S new novel beautifully captures the feeling of growing up landlocked and dreaming of the sea. Set in the fictional eastern New Mexico town of Sandhill, The Llano County Mermaid…
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What We’re Reading: Brothers of the Gun
SOME TRUE TALES of the Old West are so fascinating that they deserve to be told by fresh storytellers. Although there is no shortage of books on the friendship between lawman Wyatt Earp and…
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Buy These New Mexico Books
FOR HISTORY BUFFS What made the men who shaped the West tick? If you’ve wondered about the motivations of such complex figures as Daniel Boone, Red Eagle, Davy Crockett, Mangas Coloradas, Kit Carson…
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The Truth About Billy the Kid
D ESPITE WHAT YOU MIGHT have heard (or read or watched), Billy the Kid wasn’t a wild gunslinger with a taste for murder. He was an orphan who excelled at escaping from jail and fought in the Lincoln…
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What We’re Reading: A Beautiful Shame
WHEN THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO announced it would cut the men’s soccer program in 2018, fans, players, and alumni were stunned. The Lobos weren’t just competitive—they were nationally recognized…
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What We’re Reading: Johnny Geronimo: Art of Darkness
IN SANTA FE, someone has murdered an art collector, and now they’re moving on to Native artists. The police have called in a private eye: Think Philip Marlowe, but make him Apache. Eagle Eye…
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The Romance and Reality of the Old West
PAUL ANDREW HUTTON saw Walt Disney’s Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier for the first time when he was six years old. “That just stamped itself on my psyche,” says the longtime University of New…
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Joshua Wheeler’s Cosmic New Novel
JOSHUA WHEELER HAD HEARD THE STORY—many times—about the cult in La Luz. His family owned White Sands Ranch in nearby Alamogordo, and his aunt and uncle ran a church on the property that became a…
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