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.

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

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

"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

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

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.

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

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

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

A comprehensive history of the Acoma sanctioned by the tribe.

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.

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

The Tahoe basin--then and now.

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.

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.

Scharff looks at women's struggles to be accepted as drivers.

A Zuni myth first recorded a century ago.

It is the tale of Herman Lehmann, a captive of the Apaches on the Southern Plains of Texas and New Mexico during the 1870s.

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.