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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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Josey Wales

Two Westerns : Gone to Texas; The Vengeance Trail of Josey Wales

University of New Mexico Press

Josey Wales was the most wanted man in Texas. His wife and child had been lost to pre-civil War destruction and, like Jesse James and other young farmers, he joined the guerrilla soldiers of Missouri-men with no cause but survival and no purpose but revenge.

  • Copyright year: 1989
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Growing Up with the Country

Childhood on the Far Western Frontier

University of New Mexico Press

This illustrated study shows how frontier life shaped children's character.

  • Copyright year: 1989
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Myth and the History of the Hispanic Southwest

University of New Mexico Press

Explores the complex ways that myth and history have intersected in the remembrance of the Southwest's Hispanic past.

  • Copyright year: 1990
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High Noon in Lincoln

Violence on the Western Frontier

University of New Mexico Press

"In research, writing, and interpretation, High Noon in Lincoln is a superb book. It is one of the best books (maybe the best) ever written on a violent episode in the West."--Richard Maxwell Brown author of Strain of Violence: Historical Studies of American Violence and Vigilantism

  • Copyright year: 1990
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Termination and Relocation

Federal Indian Policy, 1945-1960

University of New Mexico Press

A major study of the effects on American Indians of the termination and relocation policies instituted during the Truman and Eisenhower era.

  • Copyright year: 1990
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The Problem of Order in Changing Societies

Essays on Crime and Policing in Argentina and Uruguay

University of New Mexico Press

The six essays in this volume examine Argentina from the eighteenth century to the 1930s and Uruguay during the nineteenth century to show the links between crime and the social and economic order.

  • Copyright year: 1990
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Chicano Politics

Reality and Promise 1940-1990

University of New Mexico Press

How a new style of politics coalesced into an ethnic populism known as the Chicano movement.

  • Copyright year: 1990
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New Mexico's Railroads

A Historical Survey

University of New Mexico Press

From narrow-gauge lines to Amtrak, this railroad lover's book shows the importance of trains to New Mexico's heritage.

  • Copyright year: 1990
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Navaho Folk Tales

University of New Mexico Press

In this marvelous collection, Franc Newcomb recounts some of the many folk tales she heard during long winter evenings at Blue Mesa.

  • Copyright year: 1990
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Acoma

Pueblo in the Sky

University of New Mexico Press

A comprehensive history of the Acoma sanctioned by the tribe.

  • Copyright year: 1991
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Time and the Highland Maya

University of New Mexico Press

Described as a landmark in the ethnographic study of the Maya, this study of ritual and cosmology among the contemporary Quiché Indians of highland Guatemala has now been updated to address changes that have occurred in the last decade.

  • Copyright year: 1992
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Old Oraibi

A Study of the Hopi Indians of Third Mesa

University of New Mexico Press

First published in 1944, Old Oraibi is an ethnographic classic, offering a sensitive portrayal of Hopi traditional culture.

  • Copyright year: 1992
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