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Southwestern History and Culture

Amasa Mason Lyman, Mormon Apostle and Apostate: A Study in Dedication, Edward Leo Lyman.
 
American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America, Robert Hughes.
 
America’s First Warriors: Native Americans and Iraq, Steven Clevenger.
 
Arch Lake Woman: Physical Anthropology and Geoarchaeology, Douglas W. Owsley et al.
 
As If the Land Owned Us: An Ethnohistory of the White Mesa Utes, Robert S. McPherson.
 
*Bartolomé  De Las Casas and the Conquest of the Americas, Lawrence A. Clayton.
 
*Becoming Indian: The Struggle over Cherokee Identity in the Twenty-first Century, Circe Sturm.
 
*Blowout!  Sal Castro and the Chicano Struggle for Educational Justice, Mario T. García and Sal Castro.
 
*Born on the Edge of Ground Zero: Living in the Shadow of Area 51: The 1945 UFO Crash in San Antonio, New Mexico, by Reme Baca and Jose Padilla.
 
*The Bronco Bill Gang, Karen Holliday Tanner and John  D. Tanner.
 
*Casta Painting: Images of Race in Eighteenth-Century Mexico, Ilona Katzew.
 
Catholics Along the Rio Grande, John Taylor.
 
Climate Change: Global risks, Challenges and Decisions, Katherine Richardson, Will Steffen, and Diana Liverman.
 
Cowgirls: Stories of Trick Riders, Sharp Shooters, and Untamed Women, edited by Erin Turner.
 
Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture [2nd ed.](6  vols.), Jay Kinsbruner, editor-in-chief.
 
Ernest Thompson Seton: The Life and Legacy of an Artist and Conservationist, David L. Witt.
 
Fire Management in the American West: Forest Politics and the Rise of the Megafires, Mark Hudson.
 
Forging a West that Works: An Invitation to the Radical Center: Essays on Ranching, Conservation and Science, editor, Barbara H. Johnson.
 
*The Girls’ History and Culture Reader: The Twentieth Century, edited by Miriam Forman-Brunell and Leslie Paris.
 
*Pecos Pueblo People Through the Ages: “…and We’re Still Here”: Stories of Time and Place, by Carol Paradise Decker.
 
*A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest, William deBuys.
 
*An Indelible Imprint: Rubén Cobos, a Multi-talented Personality, Nasario García.
 
Indian-Made: Navajo Culture in the Marketplace, 1868-1940, Erika Marie Bsumek.
 
The Invisible War: Indigenous Devotions, Discipline, and Dissent in Colonial Mexico, David Tavárez.
 
*John Simpson Chisum: The Cattle King of the Pecos Revisited, Clifford R. Caldwell.
 
*Kearny’s March: The Epic Creation of the American West, 1846-1847, Winston Groom.
 
Leyes de Las Indias [3a ed.,vol.1 only; CD-ROM], Spain; Consejo de Indias.
 
*Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion, Robert Morgan.
 
*Mexican Americans Across Generations: Immigrant Families, Racial Realities,                                                                    Jessica M. Vasquez.
 
Mexico’s Crucial Century, 1810-1910: An Introduction, Colin M. MacLachlan & William H. Beezley.
 
Modern American Indian Leaders: Their Lives and Their Work (2 vols.), Dean Chavers.
 
*My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, Volume I, 1915-1933, selected, annotated and edited by Sarah Greenough.
 
Native American Bolo Ties: Vintage and Contemporary Artistry, by Diana F. Pardue, with Norman L. Sandfield.
 
Native Historians Write Back: Decolonizing American Indian History, edited by Susan A. Miller and
James Riding In.
 
*A Natural History of the Intermountain West: Its Ecological and Evolutionary Story,
Gwendolyn L. Waring.
 
*New Mexico: Celebrating the Land of Enchantment, Richard Melzer.
 
New Mexico Journey: Student Guide, supervising curriculum developer, Megan Hansen Moench.
 
North American Borderland Narratives: French, Spanish, and Native Identities: Studies in the Psychological Borderlands, edited by Jeanette M.L. den Toonder.
 
*The Orphaned Land: New Mexico’s Environment since the Manhattan Project, V.B. Price.
 
*Out of This World: New Mexico’s Contributions to Space Travel, Loretta Hall.
 
*Puerto de Luna, Daniel B. Flores.
 
*Rocks Not Happy in Sacks, by Gilbert Walking Bull and Sally Moore; illus. by tom novak.
 
Sunshine and Shadows in New Mexico’s Past, Volume II:  The U.S. Territorial Period, 1848-1912, edited by Richard Melzer.
 
Under Western Skies: Nature and History in the American West, Donald Worster.
 
Voter Turnout in the United States, 1788-2009, Curtis Gans, with Matthew Mulling.
 
*Wild Horses of the West: History and Politics of America’s Mustangs, J. Edward de Steiguer.
 
*Work and Sing: A History of Occupational and Labor Union Songs in the United States, by
Ronald D. Cohen.


Southwestern Fiction and Literature

*Coffin Man: A Charlie Moon Mystery, James D. Doss.
 
The Long Knives Are Crying: A Novel, Joseph M. Marshall III.
 
*Native American Creation Stories of Family and Friendship, stories retold by Teresa Pijoan.
 
*Paletitas de Guayaba = On a Train Called Absence: A Novel in Spanish [bilingual  ed.], by
Erlinda Gonzales-Berry.
 
*Queen of America: A Novel, Luis Alberto Urrea.
 
Stones Witness, Margaret Randall.
 
True Brit: Beatrice, 1940, by Rosemary Zibart.


Videos

*The Civilian Conservation Corps [DVD], written, produced and directed by Robert Stone.
 
*Forgotten Ellis Island: The Extraordinary Story of America’s Immigrant Hospital [DVD], produced, written & directed by Lorie Conway.
 
*The Longoria Affair: A Film [DVD], by John J. Valadez.
 
*Surviving the Dust Bowl [DVD], written and produced by Chana Gazit.
 
*When I Rise: Let Your Voice Be Heard [DVD], Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.
 
*Wild West [Vol. 1, DVD], produced and directed by Riva Freifeld.