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Mabel Dodge Luhan - New Woman, New Worlds

by Lois Palken Rudnick

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 She was â€œthe most peculiar common denominator that society, literature, art and radical revolutionaries ever found in New York and Europe.â€ So claimed a Chicago newspaper reporter in the 1920s of Mabel Dodge Luhan. Lois Rudnickâ€™s biography examines all aspects of Mabel Dodge Luhan's real and imagined lives, drawing on fictional portraits, as well as on Mabel's own memoirs, letters, and fiction.
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Pieces Of White Shell

by T. Williams

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 This unusual book is an introduction to Navajo culture by a storyteller. Steeped in the lore of the Navajo reservation, where she worked as a teacher, the author came to see Navajo legend and ritual as touchstones for evaluating her own experience. She presents them here as a means for all people to locate their own history, traditions, and sense of how to live well.
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Edge Of Taos Desert - An Escape To Reality

by Mabel Dodge Luhan

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Indian Summer - Musings On The Gift Of Life

by Samuel F Pickering

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 This is a collection of personal essays by Sam Pickering. In typical Pickering fashion, he seeks to capture the gift of living. He brings to the page again his family, students, and a wealth of country characters who live in places that exist only in his imagination and who wander through the stories he tells.
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The Master And The Dean - The Literary Criticism Of Henry James And William Dean Howells

by Rob Davidson

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 Henry James (1843-1916) and William Dean Howells (1837-1920) are best known for the central roles they played as nineteenth-century American novelists. Here, Rob Davidson presents a study of James's literary criticism to be published since the early 1980s and of Howells's criticism.
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Costly Habits - Stories

by Peter Mukack

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 Peter Mackuck's stories, often humorous, deal with the costly habits of being materialistic, envious, narcissistic, fearful, judgemental, vengeful and obsessive - and altogether human. The characters in this collection all face loss and must find a way to deal with it and live their lives.
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In Beauty I Walk - The Literary Roots Of Native American Writing

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 An anthology that includes selections of both oral/traditional texts and works by the first generations of Native American writers. It allows readers to see the ways in which writers of the modern 'Native American Renaissance' have perpetuated, adapted, and departed from oral tradition.
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The Mining Law Of 1872 - Past, Politics, And Prospects

by Gordon Morris Bakken

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 Traces the roots of the mining law and details the way its unintended consequences have shaped western legal thought from Nome to Tombstone and how it has informed much of the lore of the settlement of the West.
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The Chouteaus - First Family Of The Fur Trade

by Stan Hoig

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 Provides a look into the lives of four generations of the Chouteau family as they voyaged up the Western rivers to conduct trade, at times taking wives among the native tribes. They provided aid to the Lewis and Clark expedition and assisted government officials in developing Indian treaties.
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Salvation Through Slavery - Chiricahua Apaches And Priests On The Spanish Colonial Frontier

by H.Henrietta Stockel

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 Examines the collision of the ethnocentric Spanish missionaries and the Chiricahua Apaches, including the resulting identity theft through Christian baptism, and the even more destructive creation of a local slave trade. This work offers a sample of the total unknown number of baptized Chiricahua men, women and children who were sold into slavery.
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Cave, City, And Eagle'S Nest - An Interpretive Journey Through The Mapa De Cuauhtinchan No. 2

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 Focuses on the sixteenth-century pictorial manuscript known as the ""Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No 2"". This work features the mapa's rare images - including sixteen full-size sections and a nearly quarter-size facsimile - accompanied by fifteen illustrated essays that explore the meanings and uses of the document, and its complex narrative.
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Remington Army And Navy Revolvers 1861-1888

by Donald L. Ware

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 Immediately following the Civil War, the United States Ordnance Department reported it had purchased 128,575 Remington revolvers during the conflict. This title offers an examination of the development and evolution of Remington revolvers from the beginning of the Civil War through the end of the Indian wars.
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The Great Houses Of Chaco

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 Chaco Canyon, in far northwest New Mexico, was a major center of Puebloan culture between AD 900 and 1250. It is believed two thousand to six thousand people lived, annually, in about one hundred settlements scattered in and around the Canyon. This title features photos that explore the intricate structures that have come to define Chaco.
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Lines In The Sand - Nationalism And Identity On The Peruvian-Chilean Frontier

by William E. Skuban

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 Explores the processes of nationalism and national identity formation in the half century that followed the War of the Pacific. This book considers the national projects of Peru and Chile in the disputed territories and shows how these efforts were received among the diverse social strata of the region.
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A History Of New Mexico Since Statehood

by Richard Melzer, Robert J. Torrez e Sandra K. Mathews

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 In this thoughtful work, the authors delineate New Mexico's role in the shaping of the United States by carefully analyzing how the rich histories of the many cultures of the region affected and in turn were affected by influxes of newcomers seeking health benefits, minerals, farms, relaxation, and new beginnings.
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The Idea Of Cuba

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 Looks at contemporary Cuba: the indomitable 1950s American car, the beautiful young woman, and the revered revolutionary hero, Jose Marti. Giving the reader insight into the Cuban national character, this title helps to understand what gives Cubans - on the island or in exile - their enduring strength and their hope for the future.
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The Black Madonna In Latin America And Europe - Tradition And Transformation

by Malgorzata Oleszkiewicz-Peralba

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 This richly illustrated study examines how the Black Madonna has become a symbol of national identity, resistance against oppression, and empowerment for the female populations of such diverse cultures as Poland and Cuba.
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Miracle On The Mesa - A History Of The University Of New Mexico, 1889-2003

by William E. Davis

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 Presents the history of the university within the framework of each administration and looks at Albuquerque and its citizens during each time period. This work describes to UNM alumni, former and current UNM students, and former and current faculty members and administrators, the efforts that have gone into making the University.
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New Mexico

by Calvin A. Roberts e Susan A. Roberts

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 Presents the fascinating succession of events and characters that make up New Mexico's past. This edition takes the reader to the opening years of the twenty-first century.
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Eyes Of The Weaver - Los Ojos Del Tejedor

by Cristina Ortega; Illustration: Patricia Garcia

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 Shares memories of the author's visits to the village of Chimayo, where Grandpa teaches her how to weave. She describes how Grandma helps her husband choose colour combinations for his Chimayo blankets, and how important it is for a child to listen to and learn from his or her relatives. This book is meant for those over 10 years.
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Termination And Relocation - Federal Indian Policy, 1945-1960

by Donald Fixico

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 A major study of the effects on American Indians of the termination and relocation policies instituted during the Truman and Eisenhower era.
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The The Problem Of Order In Changing Societies

by Lyman Johnson

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Remote Beyond Compare - Letters Of Don Diego De Vargas To His Family From New Spain And New Mexico, 1675-1706

by Diego De Vargas

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 This book, originally published in 1989 and long unavailable, is reissued in conjunction with the completed multi-volume translation of the official correspondence of don Diego De Vargas, late seventeenth-century governor and re-coloniser of New Mexico. These personal letters not only illuminate their author but the history of New Mexico as don Diego experienced it.
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Cannery Women, Cannery Lives - Mexican Women, Unionization & The California Food Processing Industry 1930-1950

by Vicki L. Ruiz

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 Women have been the mainstay of the gruelling, seasonal canning industry for over a century. This book is a collective biography. Thousands of Mexicana and Mexican American women working in canneries in southern California established effective, democratic trade union locals run by local members. The dramatic and turbulent history of their union is a major contribution to the new labour history.
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