Cowboy Boots and Art
Trim: 9" x 10"
Pages: 124
Illustrations: 96 color and 70 black-and-white photographs
© 2010
Cowboy boots are examined as markers of western life, as works of art, and subjects of works of art.
A Northern New Mexico Novel
Trim: 9" x 7"
Pages: 228
© 2018
This posthumously published bilingual novel by Jim Sagel (1947–1998), whose unique genre of writing about Nuevomexicano culture and mastery of New Mexican Spanish was dubbed “Chicanesque,” reenacts the traditional Christmas play, Los pastores, as the backdrop for a parallel story set in the fictional New Mexican village of San Buenaventura. Ultimately, Sagel spins a tale intended to make us laugh even as we cry—much as life does. San Buenaventura’s people suffer brutal blows that sometimes (or often) knock them senseless, struggling to regain their footing, and seeing stars. They do so even as they live under a guiding star.
Adela Amador's Tales from the Kitchen
Trim: 9" x 6"
Pages: 128
Illustrations: color illustrations
This keepsake New Mexico cookbook takes its name from Adela Amador's much-loved column in New Mexico Magazine. Adela's recollections of meals prepared for family and friends over the years, many for New Mexico holidays, are accompanied by dozens of recipes. The volume is organized seasonally and includes charming illustrations and a glossary of Spanish names and terms.
Trim: 11" x 8.5"
Pages: 160
Illustrations: 58 color photographs, 51 black-and-white photographs, charts, line drawings, index
© 2002
The inspiration for tens of thousands of gardeners facing the challenging winds, soils, and droughts of low- and high-desert gardens.
Nineteenth-Century Diné Textiles
Trim: 10.5" x 8.5"
Pages: 96
Illustrations: 65 color plates
© 2011
In Diné oral history, Spider Rock at Canyon de Chelly is the sacred place where Spider Woman makes her home. Her gift of weaving has provided the Diné with a constant means of sustenance.
Native Pottery of the Southwest—The Eric S. Dobkin Collection
Trim: 14" x 11.5"
Pages: 352
Illustrations: 320 color plates, 40 artist portraits, 4 gatefolds
© 2017
Spoken Through Clay includes nearly three hundred pottery vessels covering a wide range of contemporary artists and a few important historic pieces. This book includes portraits and voices of renowned Native artists—the majority of whom are Pueblo—speaking about their artistry and technique, families, culture, and traditions. Dynamic color photography captures the depth and dimension of the pieces, while the artists provide an illuminating perspective through narrative captions.
Stories of the foreboding beings and presences that exist just outside our consciousness.
In the 1950s Frank Waters wrote, “For a tiny hinterland community that has never heard of the whistle of a train, [Taos’s] impact has been exceeded by few metropolitan communities.” This book is a substantial new account of this northern New Mexico town where three cultures—Tiwa, Spanish, and Anglo—have shared land, water, and traditions for much of modern history. The book’s twenty-six chapters, written by scholars and writers who have special knowledge of their subjects, deliver Taos’s story in topical increments, beginning with a stirring chapter on the Taos Valley’s highly dynamic geologic history and concluding with surveys of artists and writers who have made Taos famous. rn
Recipes Celebrating One Hundred Years of Distinctive Home Cooking
Trim: 11" x 8.5"
Pages: 220
Illustrations: 9 color and 15 black-and-white photographs
© 2012
"Tasting New Mexico" celebrates the state's distinctive cooking, a blend of Native American, Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo influences.
A New History
Trim: 10" x 7"
Pages: 480
Illustrations: 56 black-and-white photographs
© 2009
New Mexico history from its prehistoric beginnings to the present.