Author: Phyllis S. Morgan
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826335241
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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A biography and a complete bibliography of New Mexico's leading independent historian.

Author: Marc Simmons
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826335098
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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A textbook discussing the state's history, government, economy, geography, and culture.

Author: Marc Simmons
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826317025
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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At last available in paperback, the twenty-five essays collected here re-create everyday activities of the Hispanic people of colonial northern New Mexico. What people wore, when they shopped, how they amused themselves these are but a few of the commonplace activities considered here. In reconstructing the daily routines of domestic life and work habits Simmons captures the precariousness of lives threatened by drought, crop failure, Apache raids, and accidents. Simmons's essays permit us to imagine what people long ago thought and felt, which is a considerable accomplishment. But he doesn't stop there: the final section of this volume offers a glimpse of the historian at work. Entitled "Reading History," these essays introduce three late eighteenth-century documents and provide readers with a primer in understanding economic and social problems of the past.

Author: Marc Simmons
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826311108
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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The memorable story of New Mexico's history.

Author: Marc Simmons
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585444465
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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Though academically thorough in its exploration, the popular style of delivery of Massacre on the Lordsburg Road will capture and hold the interest of general readers of Indian history.

Author: Ramón A. Gutiérrez
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804718326
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 462

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The author uses marriage to examine the social history of New Mexico between 1500 and 1846

Author: Marc Simmons
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781580960113
Category : Automobile travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Historic pioneer trails serve as some of the most fascinating links to our nation's past and retracing them can be an exhilarating and educational experience. Following the Santa Fe Trail is aimed at assisting modern travelers to enlarge their understanding of the trail and increase the enjoyment that comes from following in the wagon tracks of pioneers. Originating in Franklin, Missouri, the Santa Fe Trail was the first and most exotic of America's great trans-Mississippi pathways to the west. Although the era of the trail ceased, its glory-days are still part of the collective imagination of America. Complete with directions, maps, anecdotes, and historical information, Following the Santa Fe Trail takes the traveler on an authentic historic journey. Modern paved highways now parallel much of the old wagon route and with this guide a modern adventurer can retrace large sections of the trail. Since Following the Santa Fe Trail first appeared in 1984, the trail was designated a National Historic Trail under the National Park Service and public interest has mushroomed. This completely revised third edition now updates all directions and clarifies the changes that have taken place in the last 15 years.

Author: Marc Simmons
Publisher: Sunstone Press
ISBN: 9780865346017
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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A survey of the full range of ornamental and utilitarian ironwork used and made by Spanish colonial people in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.

Author: Marc Simmons
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826332967
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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In this family centered biography, independent scholar Simmons describes the lives of the three women who were married to frontiersman Kit Carson. They include Arapaho woman Waa-Nibe, who died three years after their marriage; Cheyenne woman Making Out Road, who divorced Carson after 14 months; and Josefa Jaramillo, the fourteen year old daughter of a prominent Taos family and mother of Carson's seven children.

Author: Marc Simmons
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806123684
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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This book chronicles the life and frontier career of Don Juan de Oñate, the first colonizer of the old Spanish Borderlands. Born in Zacatecas, Mexico, in the mid-sixteenth century, Don Juan was the prominent son of an aristocratic silver-mining family. In 1598, in his late forties, Oñate led a formidable expedition of settlers, with wagons and livestock, on an epic march northward to the upper Rio Grade Valley of New Mexico. There he established the first European settlement west of the Mississippi, launching a significant chapter in early American history. In his activities he displayed qualities typical of Spain’s sixteenth-century men of action; in his career we find a summation of the motives, aspirations, intentions, strengths, and weaknesses of the Hispanic pioneers who settled the Borderlands.