Top Books on New Mexico
When State Historian Rick Hendricks asked our readers, "What would you recommend as a good book about New Mexico?" the results were astounding, both in percentage of response (42%) and in quality and depth of books and authors.
This list will satisfy the most scholarly student of history and the dilettante equally.
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Author |
Title |
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Anaya, Rudolfo |
Bless Me Ultima |
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Anaya, Rudolfo |
Serafina´s Stories |
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Arellano, Juan Estevan |
Inocencio: ni pica, ni escarda, pero siempre come el mejor elote |
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Lange, Charles H., and Carroll L. Riley |
The Southwestern Journals of Adolph Bandelier |
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Ball, Eve |
In the Days of Victorio |
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Bradford, Richard |
Red Sky at Morning |
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Brooks, James F. |
Captives and Cousins |
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Caffey, David L. |
Frank Springer & New Mexico |
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Calvin, Ross |
Sky Determines |
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Castillo, Ana |
So Far from God |
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Chauvenet, Beatrice |
Hewett and Friends: A Biography of Santa Fe's Vibrant Era |
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Cather, Willa |
Death Comes for the Archbishop |
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Chavez, Denise |
Loving Pedro Infante |
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Chavez, Fray Angelico |
Origins of New Mexico Families |
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Chavez, Tom |
New Mexico |
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Church, Peggy Pond |
The House at Otowi Bridge |
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Clark, Ira G. |
Water in New Mexico: A History of Its Use and Management |
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Cleveland, Agnes Morley |
No Life for a Lady |
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Colligan, John |
The Juan Paez Hurtado Expedition |
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Conat, Jennet |
109 East Palace |
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Kessell, John L., Rick Hendricks, Meredith D. Dodge, and Larry D. Miller |
The Journals of Don Diego de Vargas |
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deBuys, William |
Enchantment and Exploitation: The Life and Hard times of a New Mexico Mountain Range |
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deBuys, William and Alex Harris |
River of Traps |
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Ebright, Malcolm |
Land Grants and Lawsuits in Northern New Mexico |
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Ebright, Malcolm and Rick Hendricks |
The Witches of Abiquiu: The Governor, the Priest, the Genízaro Indians, and the Devil. |
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Espinosa, J. Manuel |
The Pueblo Revolt of 1696 and the Franciscan Missions in New Mexico |
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Esquibel, José Antonio and John B. Colligan |
Recolonization of New Mexico |
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Etulain, Richard W. |
Contemporary New Mexico, 1940-1999 |
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Fergusson, Erna |
Dancing Gods |
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Flint, Richard |
No Settlement, No Conquest: A History of the Coronado Entrada |
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Garrett, Pat |
The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid |
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Gutierrez, Ramon A. |
When Jesus Came, The Corn Morthers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846 |
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Holmes, Jack E. |
Politics in New Mexico |
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Hillerman, Tony |
All books written by Tony Hillerman |
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Hillerman, Tony, Robert Reynolds, and David Muench |
New Mexico, Rio Grande, and Other Essays |
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Horgan, Paul |
Lamy of Santa Fe |
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Jette, Eleanor |
Inside Box 1663 |
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Julyan, Robert |
Place Names of New Mexico |
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Keheler, William |
All books written by William Keheler |
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Kendall, George Wilkins |
Narrative of the Texas Santa Fe Expedition |
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Kessell, John L. |
Kiva, Cross and Crown |
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Kessell, John L. |
Remote Beyond Compare |
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Kessell, John L. |
Spain in the Southwest |
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Knaut, Andrew L. |
The Pueblo Revolt of 1680: Conquest and Resistance in Seventeenth-Century New Mexico. |
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LaFarge, Oliver |
Behind the Mountains |
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Larson, Robert W. |
New Mexico's Quest for Statehood, 1846-1912 |
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Laughlin, Ruth |
The Wind Leaves No Shadow |
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Lummis, Charles |
Mesa, Canyon and Pueblo |
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Momaday, N. Scott |
House Made of Dawn |
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Montgomery, Charles H. |
The Spanish Redemption: Heritage, Power, and Loss on New Mexico’s Upper Rio Grande |
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Marriott, Alice |
Maria: The Potter of San Ildefonso |
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McKenna, James A. |
Black Range Tales |
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Muench, David |
New Mexico |
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Nichols, John |
Milagro Beanfield Wars |
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Nichols, John |
The Last Beautiful Days of Autumn |
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Nichols, John |
The New Mexico Trilogy |
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Nichols, John |
The Nirvana Blues |
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Otero, Governor Miguel Antonio |
My Life on the Frontier: 1864-1882 |
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Otero, Governor Miguel Antonio |
My Nine Years as Territorial Governor of New Mexico: 1897-1906 |
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Padilla, Carmen |
The Chile Chronicles: Tales of a New Mexico Harvest |
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Pillsbury, Dorothy |
Adobe Doorways |
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Pillsbury, Dorothy |
No High Adobe |
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Pillsbury, Dorothy |
Roots in Adobe |
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Russell, Shaman Apt |
Songs of the Fluteplayer |
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Pillsbury, Dorothy |
Star Over Adobe |
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Roberts, David |
The Pueblo Revolt |
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Sanchez, George |
Forgotten People |
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Sides, Hampton |
Blood and Thunder |
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Silko, Leslie Marmon |
Ceremony |
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Silverberg, Robert |
The Pueblo Revolt |
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Simmons, Marc |
Albuquerque: A Narrative History |
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Simmons, Marc |
The Last Conquistador: Juan de Oñate and the Settling of the Far Southwest |
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Simmons, Marc |
New Mexico: An Interpretative History |
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Smith, Pamela |
Passions in Print: Private Press Artistry in New Mexico, 1834-Present |
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Stella M. Drumm, editor |
Down the Santa Fe Trail and into Mexico: The Diary of Susan Shelby Magoffin, 1846–1847 |
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Szasz, Ferenc M. |
Larger than Life |
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Szasz, Ferenc M. |
The Day the Sun Rose Twice |
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Thomas, Alfred Barnaby |
After Coronado |
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Twitchell, Ralph Emerson |
Leading Facts of New Mexico History |
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Villagra. Gaspar Perez de |
Historia de la Nueva Mexico, 1610 |
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Weigle, Marta |
Telling New Mexico: A New History |
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Wilson, Chris |
The Myth of Santa Fe: Creating a Modern Regional Tradition |
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Semos Unlimited, Inc. |
Nuevo Mexico: An Anthology of History |
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Weber, David J. |
The Spanish Frontier in North America |
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