FAVORITE HISTORY BOOKS
from a random collection:
Kit Carson & the Indians, Tom Dunlay, 2000 Kit Carson, the Life of an American Border Man, David Remley, 2011
Kit Carson's Autobiography, 1935, reprinted 1966
My Life on the Frontier, 1864-1882, Miguel Antonio Otero, facsimile of 1935 Edition
The Battle of Glorieta, Union Victory in the West, Don E. Alberts, 1998
The Spell of New Mexico, Tony (Anthony G.) Hillerman, 1976
Route 66 in New Mexico, Images of America, Joe Sonderman, 2010
Ghost Towns of Route 66, text by Jim Hinckley, Photos by Kerrick James, 2011
NE NM
Colfax Descendants, New Mexico 1890-1990, Harold R. Honeyfield, 1997 Nevermore, Cimarron, Nevermore, Tom Hilton, 1970
Give Me Room, Delbert Littrell Hughes as told to Lenore Harris Hughes, 1971 Translating Property, the Maxwell Land Grant and the Conflict over Land in the American West, 1840-1900, Maria E. Montoya, 2005
So Far From Heaven, Richard Bradford, 1973
SANTA FE
109 East Palace, Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos, Jennet Conant, 2005
TAOS
Wicked Taos, Ellen Dornan, 2014
The Taos Trappers, the Fur Trade in the Far Southwest, 1540-1846, David J. Weber, 1971
Headless in Taos, the Dark Fated Tale of Arthur Rockford Manby, James S. Peters, 2012
ELSEWHERE
Exploring with Custer, the 1874 Black Hills Expedition, Ernest Grafe & Paul Howard, 2005
OTHER
Dennis Hopper, the Wild Ride of a Hollywood Rebel, Peter L. Winkler, 2011
His descendants are why US 64 between Raton and Clayton, New Mexico is called the "John L. Morrow" Highway. But we all just called him Johnnie!
Maxwell, New Mexico
PEACEFUL SETTING OFF I-25 IN NORTHERN NEW MEXICO