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Name: Apache Legends & Lore of Southern New Mexico
Brand: Lynda A. Sánchez
SKU: 9781626194861
Price: 17.99 USD
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Fall beneath the ancient spell of New Mexico history. Hike through the canyons around the Bandelier National Monument to walk in the steps of millennia of continuous human habitation. Embark on the USS New Mexico, the vessel that inscribed a landlocked state into the sea. Tour historic ranches that hold together generations and hurtle through the state on Route 66, stopping by Santa Fe to celebrate the architecture of our nation’s oldest capital city. Our New Mexico history books peer into the mysteries of the Land of Enchantment. [View all New Mexico books]

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Apache Legends & Lore of Southern New Mexico

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$23.99 $17.99 Save 25%

Hispanics of Roosevelt County, New Mexico

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La Cebolla Valley

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New Mexico Civil Rights and Justice

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Apache Legends & Lore of Southern New Mexico

9781626194861

$23.99 $17.99 Save 25%

Storytelling has been a vital and vivid tradition in Apache life. Coyote tales, the creation legend and stories of historic battles with Comanche and Anglo intruders create a colorful mosaic of tribal heritage. Percy Bigmouth, a prominent oral historian of the Mescalero and Lipan Apache tribes, realized in the early twentieth century that the old ways were waning. He wrote in longhand what he had learned from his father, Scout Bigmouth, a prison camp survivor at Fort Sumner and participant in the turbulent Apache Wars. Join author Lynda Sanchez as she brings to light the ancient legends and lore of the Apaches living in the shadow of Mescalero's Sacred Mountain. Seventy-five years in the making, this collection is a loving tribute to a way of life nearly lost to history.

Hispanics of Roosevelt County, New Mexico

9781626199156

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In 1942, several Hispanic families left drought-devastated Encino and headed for the small, peanut-farming town of Portales in Roosevelt County, New Mexico. Among them was the Trujillo family, including five-year-old Agapito, who later became the county's first Hispanic law enforcement officer. The new arrivals did not feel welcome in Portales, which was almost entirely Anglo and a rumored sundown town. However, determined to put down roots and take advantage of economic opportunities, they eventually thrived. Agapito Trujillo tells the story of his family's migration to Roosevelt County alongside the struggles and triumphs of the Hispanic community with candor, grace and an obvious love for his heritage and neighbors.

La Cebolla Valley

9781467171380

$24.99

Stories of the people, the land and the water.

More than 160 years ago, the early settlers of La Cebolla Valley arrived and put down roots that would flourish into a lasting legacy. Freight wagons and travelers passed through the land, an integral piece of the Mora–Las Vegas Trail, bringing with them cultures and traditions that lived on in the people who stayed. Through perseverance and dedication, they built the Acequia de San José and the Acequia de La Isla, which have known nearly two centuries of use, and transformed a small natural pond into Morphy Lake.

With the help of the documents in the Agapito Abeyta Sr. Collection, a windfall discovered in a barn, historian Virginia Sánchez brings to light the cultural heritage of La Cebolla Valley’s inhabitants.

New Mexico Civil Rights and Justice

9781467159531

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Taking a stand for equality in the Land of Enchantment

Veterans returning to New Mexico after World War II found a home altered by more than just the explosion of the first atomic bomb. Former ranchers were forced to eke out a living in zinc mines, leading to protests of conditions that were memorialized in the movie Salt of the Earth, which both the film industry and the government tried to suppress. As the civil rights movement swept across the country in the 1960s, New Mexico found its own champions in activists like Reies López Tijerina, who denounced the widespread mistreatment and abuse of the helpless. Ray John de Aragón follows the heritage of protest in New Mexico, from folk heroes like Padre Don Antonio José Martínez to more contemporary battles against racism and prejudice.