New Mexico

Fall beneath the ancient spell of New Mexico history. Hike through the canyons around the Bandelier National Monument to walk in the steps of millennia of continuous human habitation. Embark on the USS New Mexico, the vessel that inscribed a landlocked state into the sea. Tour historic ranches that hold together generations and hurtle through the state on Route 66, stopping by Santa Fe to celebrate the architecture of our nation’s oldest capital city. Our New Mexico history books peer into the mysteries of the Land of Enchantment. [View all New Mexico books]
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The Manhattan Project Trinity Test
The Manhattan Project Trinity Test
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Frontier Forts and Outposts of New Mexico
Frontier Forts and Outposts of New Mexico
$23.99
New Mexico in the Mexican American War
New Mexico in the Mexican American War
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World War I New Mexico
World War I New Mexico
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Navajo Scouts During the Apache Wars
Navajo Scouts During the Apache Wars
$21.99

The Manhattan Project Trinity Test

9781467144421

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At 5:29 a.m. on July 16, 1945, the Trinity Test explosion of the first atomic bomb changed the world forever. The dropping of the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan followed soon after, but it was the first blast in what is now known as White Sands Missile Range that marked the beginning of the end of World War II. In southern New Mexico, although the Manhattan Project was still top secret, everyday people witnessed the test, experienced its light and power, felt the earth move and knew the world had changed. Author Elva K. Österreich shares the stories of their experience and how their lives were transformed.
The Manhattan Project Trinity Test

Frontier Forts and Outposts of New Mexico

9781467140782

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The frontier spirit of New Mexico is celebrated in this memorable history of over two dozens forts and military outposts.

Life in early New Mexico was often perilous. Geographic isolation attracted outlaws and ruffians, and skirmishes often arose between the indigenous tribes and settlers. In response, the U.S. government set up military forts and outposts to protect its new citizens. These strongholds include Fort Craig, where logs were made to look like cannons to fool Confederate troops. Kit Carson, John Pershing and Billy the Kid all called Fort Stanton home, before it became the first federal tuberculosis sanatorium and later a detention center for German prisoners of war. Author Donna Blake Birchell relates little-known yet highly important Civil War battles, the tragedies of the Navajo and Mescalero Apache internments and other dramatic frontier stories.

Frontier Forts and Outposts of New Mexico

World War I New Mexico

9781467135313

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In 1917, five years after New Mexico received its statehood, the United States entered World War I. With border tensions festering between Mexico and the United States, Germany attempted unsuccessfully to secure Mexico's allegiance with its Zimmermann Telegram. More than sixteen thousand New Mexicans joined the military, while civilians supported from the home front. Groups like the Knights of Columbus, YMCA and the Salvation Army, as well as Governor W.E. Lindsey's New Mexico Council of Defense, raised military funding. Author Daniel R. Cillis recounts the Land of Enchantment's influence on World War I from its beginning through to the 1918 Armistice.
World War I New Mexico

Navajo Scouts During the Apache Wars

9781467141956

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In January 1873, Secretary of War William W. Belknap authorized the Military District of New Mexico to enlist fifty Indian scouts for campaigns against the Apaches and other tribes. In an overwhelming response, many more Navajos came to Fort Wingate to enlist than the ten requested. Why, so soon after the Navajo War, the Long Walk and imprisonment at Fort Sumner, would young Navajos volunteer to join the United States military? Author John Lewis Taylor explores this question and the relationship between the Navajo Nation and the United States military in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Navajo Scouts During the Apache Wars