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New in Southwest

The Southwest Collection is an advanced reference resource and service for librarians, government agencies, and the public seeking historical information about New Mexico and its environs. Periodically, we publish a list of the newest titles in the Southwest Collection. You can find that list here.



New in Southwest April 2012

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Southwestern History, Natural History, and Culture

50 Common Insects of the Southwest, Carl Olson.
 
*Another Damn Newcomer: Confrontational Politics, Environment Issues and Fun in Rural New Mexico,  Audrie Clifford.
 
Arizona: A History [Rev. ed.], Thomas E. Sheridan.
 
Beating the Bark Beetles: Defending Your Valuable Trees Against Bark Beetles and Other Destructive Pests, Matthew L. Rix.
 
*The Beauty of Navajo Jewelry, by Theda Bassman; photography by Gene Balzer.
 
Bureau of Indian Affairs, Donald L. Fixico.
 
*The Casads: A Pioneer Family of the Mesilla Valley, Rick Hendricks.
 
*Casino Women: Courage in Unexpected Places, Susan Chandler and Jill B. Jones.
 
*Dee Brown’s Civil War Anthology, Dee Brown, edited by Stan Banash.
 
*Dinetah: My Reservation Days, 1923-1939, Alwin J. Girdner.
 
Eating the Landscape: American Indian Stories of Food, Identity, and Resilience,
Enrique Salmón.
 
Flying Franks, Floating Fish: The Odd October Skies of Albuquerque, by Kim Alaburda.

*From Western Deserts to Carolina Swamps: A Civil War Soldier’s Journals and Letters Home, edited by John P. Wilson.
 
The Great Taos Bank Robbery and Other True Stories, Tony Hillerman; photographs by Don Strel.
 
In Pursuit of Gold: Chinese American Miners and Merchants in the American West, Sue Fawn Chung.
 
*A Life Well Led: The Biography of Barbara Freire-Marreco Aitken, British Anthropologist, Mary Ellen Blair.
 
*Line in the Sand: A History of the Western U.S.-Mexico Border, Rachel St. John.
 
*Living Illegal: The Human Face of Unauthorized Immigration, Marie Friedmann Marquardt et al.
 
Lost Treasures & Old Mines: A New Mexico Federal Writers’ Project Book, compiled and edited by Ann Lacy and Anne Valley-Fox.
 
*A Mad, Crazy River: Running the Grand Canyon in 1927, Clyde L. Eddy.
 
Making the Chinese Mexican: Global Migration, Localism, and Exclusion in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, Grace Peña Delgado.
 
*The Man Who Never Died: The Life, Times, and Legacy of Joe Hill, American Labor Icon, William M. Adler.
 
*Mañana Forever? Mexico and the Mexicans, Jorge G. Castañeda.
 
Mexico and Mexicans in the Making of the United States, edited by John Tutino.
 
Native Friendships: Our New Buffalo Dancer and Related Tributes to Indian Art and Artists, Helmut W. Horchler.
 
New Mexico Millenium Collection: A Twenty-First Century Celebration of Fine Art in New Mexico, Kathryn Fowler, Nancy M. Stem.
 
New Mexico’s Living Landscapes: A Roadside View, William W. Dunmire; photography by Christine Bauman and William W. Dunmire.
 
Now That the Buffalo’s Gone: A Study of Today’s American Indians, Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.
 
*The Only One Living to Tell: The Autobiography of a Yavapai Indian, Mike Burns; edited by Gregory McNamee.
 
*Outlaw Tales of New Mexico: True Stories of the Land of Enchantment’s Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, and Cutthroats [2nd ed.], Barbara Marriott.
 
*Penitentes of New Mexico: Hermanos de la Luz = Brothers of the Light, Ray John de Aragón.
 
Pueblo Recollections: The Life of Paa Péh: Joe S. Sando, Joe S. Sando.
 
Railroad Stations: The Buildings That Linked the Nation, David Naylor.
 
Raton: History, Mystery and More, by Mike J. Pappas.
 
*Remembering: A Guide to New Mexico Cemeteries, Monuments, and Memorials, text and photography by Margaret M. Nava.
 
*Return  to Centro Histórico: A Mexican Jew Looks for his Roots, Ilan Stavans.
 
*Rural Protest and the Making of Democracy in Mexico, 1968-2000, Dolores Trevizo.
 
*Salinas: Archaeology, History, and Prehistory, edited by David Grant Noble.
 
Santa Fe After Dark: An Illustrated Guide, by Bob Eggers.
 
*The Santa Fe Trail, Judy Alter.
 
A Separate Country: Postcoloniality and American Indian Nations, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn.
 
The Settlement of America: Encyclopedia of Westward Expansion from Jamestown to the Closing of the Frontier (2 vols.), James A. Crutchfield, Candy Moulton, Terry A. Del Bene, editors.
 
The Skeleton at the Feast: The Day of the Dead in Mexico, Elizabeth Carmichael, Chloë Sayer.
 
*The Spanish Colonial Settlement Landscapes of New Mexico, 1598-1680, Elinore M. Barrett.
 
Spider Woman’s Gift: Nineteenth-Century Diné Textiles at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, edited by Shelby J. Tisdale.
 
*The Sundance Kid: The Life of Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, Donna A. Ernst.
 
*Tasting New Mexico: Recipes Celebrating One Hundred Years of Distinctive Home Cooking, by Cheryl Alters Jamison and Bill Jamison; contemporary photography by Sharon Stewart.
 
*A Time Before Deception: Truth in Communication, Culture, and Ethics, Thomas W. Cooper.
 
N*Trespassers On Our Own Land: Structured as an Oral History of the Juan P. Valdez Family and of the Land Grants of Northern New Mexico, Mike Scarborough.
 
The Woman in the Shaman’s Body: Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion and Medicine,
Barbara Tedlock.


Southwestern Fiction, Literature, and Literary Criticism

*An Apricot Year: A Novel, Martha Egan.
 
Chicano Nations: The Hemispheric Origins of Mexican American Literature, Marissa K. López.
 
Collecting Santa Fe Authors, by T.N. Luther.
 
Dreams of Quivira: Stories in Search of the Golden West: New Fiction, by Robert Franklin Gish.
 
Editing Historical Documents: A Handbook of Practice, Michael E. Stevens and Steven B. Burg.
 
Elvis Romero and Fiesta de Santa Fe, featuring Zozobra’s Great Escape, by Andrew Leo Lovato.
 
Everett Ruess: A Vagabond for Beauty, W.L. Rusho.
 
Facing High Water, John Brandi.
 
Iguana Dreams: New Latino Fiction, edited by Delia Poey and Virgil Suarez.
 
*Magic Lance: Mystery & Adventure in the New West, Hal Simmons.
 
Poems to Dream Together = Poemas Para Soñar Juntos, Francisco X. Alarcón; illustrations by Paula Barragán.
 
*Randy Lopez Goes Home: A Novel, Rudolfo Anaya.
 
St. Agnes’ Stand, Thomas Eidson.
 
Willa Cather and Modern Cultures, edited by Melissa J. Homestead and Guy J. Reynolds.
 
Yaqui Deer Songs = Maso Bwikam: A Native American Poetry, Larry Evers and Felipe S. Molina.


Videos

*Kinaalda: A Film [DVD], by Lena Carr.
 
*War Code: Navajo: A National Geographic Special [DVD], produced by Lena Benally Carr, Amy Wray.
 
 
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