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First published in 1980 as part of Harper & Row's Regions of America series, this lively account is now available only from the University of New Mexico Press. Focusing on New Mexico and Arizona, it also touches on neighboring states Texas, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and California, as well as northern Mexico. Lavender writes of the Southwest from the time of the earliest Indian inhabitants to the eras of the Spanish conquerors, the French fur trappers, and the eventual expansion of the United States into the area. He describes conflicts between Mexico and Spain, Mexico and Texas, and Mexico and the United States and explores the truth behind folklore and legends about cowboys, Indians, and outlaws. He also discusses the region's present-day problems--the difficulties of relationships among a variety of racial, cultural, and economic groups and the scarcity of usable land, water, and air. "Delicious history, soundly investigated and superbly presented, enlivened by a sparkling style and rich in anecdotes and persona sketches. . . . Should be read not only in the Southwest, but by all Americans who seek knowledge of a region that is daily becoming more important nationally--and internationally."-Ray A. Billington

In this groundbreaking new study on ladinas in Guatemala City, Patricia Harms contests the virtual erasure of women from the country's national memory and its historical consciousness. Harms reveals a complex, significant, and palpable feminist movement that emerged in Guatemala during the 1870s and remained until 1954.

Each August staff and volunteers begin to construct a temporary city located in the hostile and haunting Black Rock Desert. Every September nearly seventy thousand people occupy the city for "Burning Man". By mid-September the infrastructure is dismantled. This book examines this process of building, occupation, and destruction.

Traces conflicts stemming from Protestant conversion in southern Mexico and demonstrates that both Protestants and Catholics deployed cultural identity as self-defense in clashes over power and authority. This is an important addition to the literature on transnational religious movements, gender, and indigenous identity in Latin America.

Reconstructs the history of Mexico's ""Religionero"" rebellion of 1873-1877, an armed Catholic challenge to the government of Sebastian Lerdo de Tejada. A reconstruction of the revolt and a reappraisal of its significance, this book places ordinary Catholics at the centre of Mexico's fragmented nineteenth-century secularization and Catholic revival.

Throughout the colonial period the Spanish crown made numerous unsuccessful attempts to conquer Araucania, Chile's southern borderlands region. Contested Nation argues that with Chilean independence, Araucania - because of its status as a separate nation-state - became essential to the territorial integrity of the new Chilean Republic.

Draws on a number of styles - persona, ekphrastic, lyrical, formal - to create a collection that explores the promises of love and loss. From pleasure to pain to hope of new love, this collection draws readers into the everyday magic of the world.

N. Scott Momaday has had one of the most remarkable careers in twentieth-century American letters. Here, in In the Bear's House, Momaday passionately explores themes of loneliness, sacredness, and aggression through his depiction of Bear, the one animal that has both inspired and haunted him throughout his lifetime.

Charlie Siringo (1855-1928) lived the quintessential life of adventure on the American frontier as a cowboy, Pinkerton detective, writer, and later as a consultant for early western films. Howard Lamar's biography deftly shares Siringo's story within seventy-five pivotal years of western history.

This powerful biography traces the career of an African American physician and civil rights advocate, Edward Craig Mazique (1911-1987), from the poverty and discrimination of Natchez, Mississippi, to his status as a prominent physician in Washington, DC. This moving story is a chapter in the struggle of African Americans to achieve equality.

A collaboration between Native activists, professionals, and scholars, Re-creating the Circle brings a new perspective to the American Indian struggle for self-determination: the returning of Indigenous peoples to sovereignty, self-sufficiency, and harmony so that they may again live well in their own communities.

Follows a trail of clues left by adventurers and professional archaeologists that guides the reader through haunted museums, mysterious hieroglyphic inscriptions, fragments of a lost continent that never existed, and deep into an investigation of magic and murder.

Traces how Gothic imagination from the literature and culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe and twentieth-century US and European film has impacted Latin American literature and film culture. Serrano argues that the Gothic has provided a way to critique issues including colonization, authoritarianism, feudalism, and patriarchy.

Analyses Spanish rule and Catholic practice from the consolidation of Spanish control in the Americas in the sixteenth century to the loss of these colonies in the nineteenth century by following the life and afterlife of an accidental martyr, San Felipe de Jesus.

Examines gang history in the region encompassing West Texas, Southern New Mexico, and Northern Chihuahua, Mexico. Mike Tapia examines this region by exploring a century of historical developments through a criminological lens and by studying the diverse subcultures on both sides of the law.

In his eighty-plus years, Max Evans has known, owned, ridden, and been thrown by quite a number of horses. In For the Love of a Horse, Evans shares his favourite horse stories for all to enjoy.

Ty Hale, a young corporal from New Mexico, finds himself alone in the middle of a grain field in Normandy after being knocked unconscious. Stunned and overwhelmed by visions of his grandfather and the simple life of the New Mexico prairie he has left behind, Ty stumbles onto a country estate and inextricably into the lives of its inhabitants.

Pays homage to the rivers that taught the poet - the Rio Grande and the Chicago and Illinois Rivers. Sharp-eyed and empathetic, Golden serves as a witness, documenting place, history, and people, especially those left voiceless due to violence or discrimination.