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!


PEACEFUL SETTING OFF I-25 IN NORTHERN NEW MEXICO