Books published by University of New Mexico Press

Traces the history of New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Arizona from 1846 to 1912. Lamar analyses the evolution of American political and economic systems to show their impact on the racial and ethnic groups already present in the Southwest. Lamar also puts into perspective both the local territorial history and the relationship between the region and the nation.

To grow up as a Mexican-American Methodist in a small town in south central Texas in the 1940s and 1950s was to be a minority within a minority. This account of a boyhood in Seguin, Texas, broadens our understanding of Latino culture by evoking a time when Catholics and Protestants had nothing to do with each other and the word Chicano was not yet in use.

This personal and historical account traces the twentieth-century legal battle, Healing v. Jones, and its effects on the tribes.

This lively memoir describes trading post life from 1938 to 1950 and the many changes experienced by Navajos and all Americans during and after World War II

Traces the development of American attitudes toward the desert using case studies from the writings of John C. Fre(c)mont, William Lewis Manly, Mark Twain, William Ellsworth Smythe, John Van Dyke, George Wharton James, Joseph Wood Krutch, and Edward Abbey.