Hispanic New Mexican History, Life & Values
(see also Mexican American History, Life & Values, Mexican American Movements, Tejano History, Life & Values)
Basics
On the Web: Articles
On the Web: Specialized Sites
In the Library: Articles
Baxter, O. John. "Salvador Armijo: citizen of Albuquerque, 1823-1879," New Mexico Historical Review 25,4 (9/78):265-95.
Chávez, Thomas E. "Don Manuel Alvarez (de las Abelgas): multi-talented merchant of New Mexico," Journal of the West 18,1 (1/79):22-31.
Francis, E.K. "Padre Martínez: a New Mexican myth," New Mexico Historical Review 31,4 (10/56):265-89.
Frank, Ross. "The creation of a vecino culture in late colonial New Mexico," in Guedea & Rodríguez (eds.) Five Centuries of Mexican History, vol. II (México, 1992), pp. 253-73.
Gutiérrez, Ramón A. Honor ideology, marriage negotiation & class-gender domination in New Mexico, 1690-1846," Latin American Perspectives 44 (win 85):81-104.
__________. "El Santuario de Chimayó: a syncretic shrine in New Mexico," in Gutiérrez & Fabre (eds.) Feasts & Celebrations in North American Ethnic Communities (Albuquerque: U. of New Mexico, 1995).
__________. "Crucifixion, slavery, & death: the Hermanos Penitentes of the Southwest," in Matsumoto & Allmendinger (eds.) Over the Edge: Remapping the American West (Berkeley: U. of California, 1999).
Knowlton, Clark. "The New Mexico land war," Nation (6/17/68).
Lecompte, Janet. "Manuel Armijo & the Americans," Journal of the West 19,3 (7/80):51-63. 1840s.
López Tijerina, Reies. "From prison," in Ludwig & Santibañez (eds.) The Chicanos (Baltimore, 1972), pp. 215-22.
Melzer, Richard. "Gov. Miguel Otero's war: statehood & New Mexican loyalty in the Spanish-American War," Colonial Latin American History Review 8,1 (win 99):79-104.
Moorhead, Max L. "The American invasion of 1846 as told by New Mexicans," New Mexico Historical Review 26 (1/51):68-82.
Mosk, Sanford. "The influence of tradition on agriculture in New Mexico," Journal of Economic History (1942):34-51.
Puckett, Fidelia M. "Ramón Ortiz: priest & patriot," New Mexico Historical Review 25,4 (10/50):265-95.
Sunseri, Alvin R. "Agricultural techniques in New Mexico at the time of the Anglo-American conquest," Agricultural History 47 (1973):329-37.
Swadesh, Frances. "The Alianza Movement: catalyst for social change in New Mexico," in J. Helm (ed.) Spanish-Speaking People in the US (Seattle: U. of Washington, 1968).
Taylor, W.B. & Elliott West. "Patrón leadership at the crossroads: Southern Colorado in the late 18th c.," Pacific Historical Review 42,3 (1973):335-57.
Townley, John M. "El Placer: a New Mexico mining boom before 1946," Journal of the West 10,1 (1971):102-15.
Tyler, Daniel. "The Spanish colonial legacy & the role of Hispanic custom in defining New Mexico land & water rights," Colonial Latin American Historical Review 4,2 (spr 95):149-66.
Weber, David J. "El gobierno territorial de Nuevo México: la exposición del Padre Martínez de 1831," Historia Mexicana 98 (1975):302-16.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Baxter, John O. Las Carneradas: Sheep Trade in New Mexico, 1700-1860 (Albuquerque: U. of New Mexico, 1987).
__________. Dividing New Mexico's Waters, 1700-1912 (Albuquerque: U. of New Mexico, 1997).
Boyle, Susan Calafate. Los Capitalistas: Hispano Merchants on the Santa Fe Trail (Albuquerque: U. of New Mexico, 1998).
Bradfute, Richard W. The Court of Private Land Claims: The Adjudication of Spanish & Mexican Land Grant Titles, 1891-1904 (Albuquerque: U. of New Mexico, 1975).
Briggs, Charles L. & John R. van Ness (eds.) Land, Water, & Culture: New Perspectives on Hispanic Land Grants (Albuquerque: U. of New Mexico, 1987).
Buss, Fran Leeper. La Partera: Story of a Midwife (Ann Arbor, 1980). Jesusita Aragón, b. 1908.
Carroll, H. Bailey & J. Villasaña Haggard (eds.) Three New Mexico Chronicles (Albuquerque: U. of New Mexico, 1942). Pino (1812), Barreiro (1832) & Escudero (1849).
Chalfant, William Y. Dangerous Passage: The Santa Fe Trail & the Mexican War (Norman: U. of Oklahoma, 1994).
Chávez, Thomas E. Conflict & Acculturation: Manuel Alvarez's 1842 Memorial (Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico, 1989).
Davis, W.W.H. El Gringo: New Mexico & Her People [1857] (Lincoln: U. of Nebraska, 1982).
Ebright, Malcolm. Land Grants & Lawsuits in Northern New Mexico (Albuquerque: U. of New Mexico, 1994).
Ellis, Richard N. (ed.) New Mexico, Past & Present: A Historical Reader (Albuquerque: U. of New Mexico, 1971).
Espinosa, José. Saints in the Valleys: Christian Sacred Images in the History, Life & Folk Art of Spanish New Mexico (Albuquerque: U. of New Mexico, 1967).
Fergusson, Erna. New Mexico: A Pageant of Three Peoples (Albuquerque: U. of New Mexico, 1973).
Forrest, Suzanne. The Preservation of the Village: New Mexico's Hispanics & the New Deal (Albuquerque: U. of New Mexico, 1989).
Frank, Larry. New Kingdom of the Saints: Religious Art of New Mexico, 1780-1907 (Santa Fe: Red Crane, 1992).
Gardiner, Richard. Grito!: Reies Tijerina & the New Mexico Land Grant War of 1967 (NY: Harper & Row, 1971).
Getz, Lynne Marie. Schools of their Own: The Education of Hispanos in New Mexico, 1850-1940 (Albuquerque: U. of New Mexico, 1997).
González, Deena. Refusing the Favor: The Spanish-Mexican Women of Santa Fe, 1820-1880 (NY: Oxford, 1999).
Gutiérrez, Ramón A. When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality & Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846 (Stanford: Stanford, 1990).
Kubler, George. Santos: The Religious Folk Art of New Mexico (Austin: U. of Texas, 19
Lummis, Charles F. The Land of Poco Tiempo [1893] (Albuquerque: U. of New Mexico, 1952). Author, an acute observer of society & culture, walked from Cincinnati to Los Angeles in 1884.
Martínez, Andrés & J.J. Methven. Andele, the Mexican-Kiowa Captive: A Story of Real Life among the Indians (Albuquerque: U. of New Mexico, 1996). 19th-c. New Mexico Indian slave trade.
Mednick, Christina Singleton. San Cristóbal: Voices & Visions of the Galisteo Basin (Santa Fe, 1996).
Mocho, Jill. Murder & Justice in Frontier New Mexico, 1821-1846 (Albuquerque: U. of New Mexico, 1997).
Nabokov, Peter. Tijerina & the Courthouse Raid (Berkeley: Ramparts, 1970).
Perrone, Bobette; H. Henrietta Stockel & Victoria Krueger. Medicine Women, Curanderas & Women Doctors (Norman: U. of Oklahoma, 1989).
Rosenbaum, Robert J. Mexicano Resistance in the Southwest: "The Sacred Right of Self-Preservation" (Austin: U. of Texas, 1981).
Simmons, Marc. Witchcraft in the Southwest: Spanish & Indian Supernaturalism on the Rio Grande (Lincoln: U. of Nebraska, 1980).
Steele, Thomas J. SJ New Mexican Spanish Religious Oratory, 1800-1900 (Albuquerque: U. of New Mexico, 1997).
Tijerina, Reies. They Called Me "King Tiger": My Struggle for the Land & Our Rights (Houston: Arte Público, 2000).
Walker, Randi Jones. Protestantism in the Sangre de Cristos, 1850-1920 (Albuquerque: U. of New Mexico, 1991).
Weber, David J. The Taos Trappers: the Fur Trade in the Far Southwest, 1540-1846 (Norman: U. of Oklahoma, 1971).
Westphal, Victor. Mercedes Reales: Hispanic Land Grants of the Upper Rio Grande Region (Albuquerque: U. of New Mexico, 1983).
Wroth, William. Images of Penance, Images of Mercy: Southwestern Santos in the Late 19th C. (Norman: U. of Oklahoma, 199?).
Yohn, Susan M. A Contest of Faiths: Missionary Women & Pluralism in the American Southwest (Ithaca: Cornell, 1995).
In the Library: Fiction
Nichols, John. The Milagro Beanfield War (NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1974).
Salaz, Rubén Darío. Heartland: Stories of the Southwest (Santa Fe NM: Blue Feather, 1978).
Ulibarri, Sabine R. Tierra Amarilla: Stories of New Mexico (Albuquerque: U. of New Mexico, 1971).
In the Library: For Young Readers
In the Library: Poetry
In the Library: Drama
In the Library: Photography
CD & Audio
Film & Video
"The Milagro Beanfield War" [1988], dir. Robert Redford, 117m. In video stores. Development vs. land & water rights in northern New Mexico.
"Vayan volando" [? ], by La Luz Productions, 27m. From Southwest Network. History of land rights movement in northern New Mexico.