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.
Josey Wales
Two Westerns : Gone to Texas; The Vengeance Trail of Josey Wales
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
Growing Up with the Country
Childhood on the Far Western Frontier
This illustrated study shows how frontier life shaped children's character.
- Copyright year: 1989
Myth and the History of the Hispanic Southwest
Explores the complex ways that myth and history have intersected in the remembrance of the Southwest's Hispanic past.
- Copyright year: 1990
High Noon in Lincoln
Violence on the Western Frontier
"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
Termination and Relocation
Federal Indian Policy, 1945-1960
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
The Problem of Order in Changing Societies
Essays on Crime and Policing in Argentina and Uruguay
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
Chicano Politics
Reality and Promise 1940-1990
How a new style of politics coalesced into an ethnic populism known as the Chicano movement.
- Copyright year: 1990
New Mexico's Railroads
A Historical Survey
From narrow-gauge lines to Amtrak, this railroad lover's book shows the importance of trains to New Mexico's heritage.
- Copyright year: 1990
Navaho Folk Tales
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
Acoma
Pueblo in the Sky
A comprehensive history of the Acoma sanctioned by the tribe.
- Copyright year: 1991
Time and the Highland Maya
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
Old Oraibi
A Study of the Hopi Indians of Third Mesa
First published in 1944, Old Oraibi is an ethnographic classic, offering a sensitive portrayal of Hopi traditional culture.
- Copyright year: 1992
Stopping Time
A Rephotographic Survey of Lake Tahoe
The Tahoe basin--then and now.
- Copyright year: 1992
A History of the Jews in New Mexico
In this first history of the Jews in New Mexico--from the colonial period to the present day--the author continuously ties the Jewish experience to the evolution of the societies in which they lived and worked.
- Copyright year: 1992
The Zuni Man-Woman
The life of We'wha (1849-96), the Zuni who was perhaps the most famous berdache (an individual who combined the work and traits of both men and women) in American Indian history.
- Copyright year: 1992
Taking the Wheel
Women and the Coming of the Motor Age
Scharff looks at women's struggles to be accepted as drivers.
- Copyright year: 1992
The Boy Who Made Dragonfly
A Zuni Myth
A Zuni myth first recorded a century ago.
- Copyright year: 1993
Nine Years Among the Indians, 1870-1879
The Story of the Captivity and Life of a Texan Among the Indians
It is the tale of Herman Lehmann, a captive of the Apaches on the Southern Plains of Texas and New Mexico during the 1870s.
- Copyright year: 1993
Mayordomo
Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New Mexico
This memoir of the author's experience as a mayordomo, or ditch boss, is the first record of the life of an acequia by a community participant.
- Copyright year: 1993
Tierra Amarilla
Stories of New Mexico / Cuentos de Nuevo Mexico
- Copyright year: 1993
Conflict and Change in Cuba
The thirteen original essays in this volume explore the dynamics of continuity, conflict, and change in Cuba. Analyzed here are the historical trends and patterns of conflict in Cuba compared to contradictions that inevitably arise in any political system.
- Copyright year: 1993
Essays in Twentieth-Century New Mexico History
This volume supplements the standard accounts of New Mexico history and will reward readers seeking to understand the complex nature of contemporary New Mexico.
- Copyright year: 1996
An Unsettled Country
Changing Landscapes of the American West
In these four essays, which were presented as the 1992 Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western History and Culture, Donald Worster incisively discusses the role of the natural environment in the making of the West--and often in its unmaking and remaking.
- Copyright year: 1994
To the Royal Crown Restored
The Journals of don Diego de Vargas, New Mexico, 1692-1694
We Fed Them Cactus
Documents the daily activities of Hispanic pioneers--buffalo hunting, horse breaking, sheep herding, preparing and preserving food, sewing, tending the sick, and educating children are included in this rich recuerdo, as well as stories of Comancheros, Tejanos, Americanos, and outlaws.
- Copyright year: 1994
Antigua California
Mission and Colony on the Peninsular Frontier, 1697-1768
This Spanish Borderlands classic recounts Jesuit colonization of the Old California, the peninsula now known as Baja California.
- Copyright year: 1994
Living Life's Circle
Mescalero Apache Cosmovision
The product of more than fifteen years contact and life with the Mescalero people in southern New Mexico, Living Life’s Circle is one of the first works devoted to the emergent new interdiscipline of ethnoastronomy, the study of how the sky and its movements form "templates" for life in particular cultures.
- Copyright year: 1994
El Malpais, Mt. Taylor, and the Zuni Mountains
A Hiking Guide and History
A richly illustrated guide to the trails of this unique and varied western New Mexico area.
- Copyright year: 1994
Regional Markets and Agrarian Transformation in Bolivia
Cochabamba, 1539-1960
Examines the end of the colonial era in Bolivia.
- Copyright year: 1994
Ghost Singer
A Novel
Indian remains in the Smithsonian cause ghosts to haunt, torment, and murder researchers--even as they themselves are tormented by the items in the museum's collection.
- Copyright year: 1994