Women of the Santa Fe Trail
BY THE TIME SUSAN WALLACE’S WAGON TRAIN CRESTED RATÓN PASS IN 1878, the Santa Fe Trail had accomplished its goal of knitting the Wild West into the American story. The trail’s 1821–1880 heyday as a…
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Tag: Books
Writing the Trail
What compelled you to write this book? There were so many points of entry for me to study the women of the Santa Fe Trail. I have lived along the Santa Fe Trail and have been the chief executive of…
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What We're Reading: The Sound of a Thousand Stars
SANDS AND SCIENCE shift under the weight of history in Rachel Robbins’s debut novel, The Sound of a Thousand Stars (Alcove Press). Set during World War II, the story primarily follows Alice Katz, a…
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What We're Reading: Havoc
DEBORAH J. LEDFORD’S second novel featuring tribal police officer Eva “Lightning Dance” Duran is a thrilling exploration of life, death, and cultural tensions on Taos Pueblo. Havoc (Thomas & Mercer…
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A Look at Kevin Bubriski’s New Mexico
KEVIN BUBRISKI drove cross-country to Santa Fe in 1981, fresh from a stint with the Peace Corps in Nepal. The aspiring documentary filmmaker fell in love with still photography in northern New Mexico…
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What We're Reading: Fountain Creek
NEW MEXICO MAGAZINE contributor and Pueblo, Colorado, native Jim O’Donnell traces the flow of his hometown watershed in Fountain Creek: Big Lessons from a Little River (Torrey House Press). “The world…
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Five Books to Gift This Season
FOR THE ART LOVER Paired with an exhibition at Santa Fe’s Museum of Indian Arts & Culture that runs through February 2, Horizons: Weaving Between the Lines with Diné Textiles showcases a dazzling…
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What We’re Reading: Light as Light
“LANGUAGE IS AT THE BASE and core of relating to others,” Acoma Pueblo poet Simon J. Ortiz writes in Light as Light (University of Arizona Press). “Language is motion. Action. Doing. Letting. Sharing…
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The Power of the Pen
“I LOVE MY SOLITARY LIFE,” says Albuquerque poet, novelist, and screenwriter Jimmy Santiago Baca. Abandoned by his parents as a toddler, Baca spent portions of his youth in a Santa Fe orphanage before…
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What We’re Reading: A Passing West
DAGOBERTO GILB’S book of personal and journalistic essays, A Passing West (UNM Press), is as fun as it is thought-provoking. His meditations on Mexican American identity and life in the West take…
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