Established in 1929, the University of New Mexico Press publishes creative works and scholarship in several disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, indigenous studies, Native studies, Latin American studies, art, architecture, and the history, literature, ecology, and cultures of the American West. UNM Press is the largest publisher in New Mexico and seeks to represent the culture, history, and stories of the Southwest.
Mining Frontiers of the Far West, 1848-1880
An overview of mining and its effects on the settlement of the West.
- Copyright year: 2008
Tijeras Canyon
Analyses of the Past
Archaeological research conducted in Tijeras Canyon, New Mexico, in the 1970s by the University of New Mexico summer field school of archaeology and the Laboratory of Anthropology of the Museum of New Mexico.
- Copyright year: 2009
Tularosa
Last of the Frontier West
The history of the Tularosa Basin--which includes White Sands Missile Range--from pioneer days through the atomic age.
- Copyright year: 1980
The Remembered Earth
An Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature
This broad survey of Native American writing today is incisive, reflective, moving, and provocative in its variety.
- Copyright year: 1981
The United States Marshals of New Mexico and Arizona Territories, 1846-1912
The pathbreaking classic on law enforcement on the frontier of the American West.
- Copyright year: 1982
The Mexican Frontier, 1821-1846
The American Southwest Under Mexico
Reinterprets borderlands history from the Mexican perspective.
- Copyright year: 1982
Westering Women and the Frontier Experience, 1800-1915
Myres uses extensive source material by and about women to study the impact of the frontier on women's lives and the role of women in the West.
- Copyright year: 1982
Carlos Montezuma and the Changing World of American Indians
The classic biography of one of the great Native American crusaders for Indian rights in the early twentieth century.
- Copyright year: 1982
American Indians of the Southwest
More than providing a compendium of southwestern Indian history and culture, this remarkable book gives the reader an understanding of and appreciation for the unique lifeways of these peoples whose philopophy, the author believes, may be our one great resource for peace.
- Copyright year: 1983
Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca was the first European to cross the North American continent. This remarkable book is his odyssey, first written in 1542 as an official report to the king of Spain under the title La Relación.
- Copyright year: 1983
The Canadian Frontier, 1534-1760
This account of the French era in Canada is the most original treatment of the subject in over a century.
- Copyright year: 1983
The Southwest
A historical and cultural overview, including discussions of present-day racial, conservation, and economic problems.
- Copyright year: 1984