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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.

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Mining Frontiers of the Far West, 1848-1880

University of New Mexico Press

An overview of mining and its effects on the settlement of the West.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Tijeras Canyon

Analyses of the Past

University of New Mexico Press

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
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Tularosa

Last of the Frontier West

University of New Mexico Press

The history of the Tularosa Basin--which includes White Sands Missile Range--from pioneer days through the atomic age.

  • Copyright year: 1980
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The Remembered Earth

An Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature

Edited by Gary Hobson
University of New Mexico Press

This broad survey of Native American writing today is incisive, reflective, moving, and provocative in its variety.

  • Copyright year: 1981
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The United States Marshals of New Mexico and Arizona Territories, 1846-1912

University of New Mexico Press

The pathbreaking classic on law enforcement on the frontier of the American West.

  • Copyright year: 1982
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The Mexican Frontier, 1821-1846

The American Southwest Under Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

Reinterprets borderlands history from the Mexican perspective.

  • Copyright year: 1982
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Westering Women and the Frontier Experience, 1800-1915

University of New Mexico Press

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
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Carlos Montezuma and the Changing World of American Indians

University of New Mexico Press

The classic biography of one of the great Native American crusaders for Indian rights in the early twentieth century.

  • Copyright year: 1982
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American Indians of the Southwest

University of New Mexico Press

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
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Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America

University of New Mexico Press

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
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The Canadian Frontier, 1534-1760

University of New Mexico Press

This account of the French era in Canada is the most original treatment of the subject in over a century.

  • Copyright year: 1983
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The Southwest

University of New Mexico Press

A historical and cultural overview, including discussions of present-day racial, conservation, and economic problems.

  • Copyright year: 1984
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