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Tag Archives: New Mexico
Adventures with Ed
Adventures with Ed: A Portrait of Abbey© 2003 Jack Loeffler308 pages “He walked across the desert at least a thousand times,” Tom Russell sang of Abbey in his “Ballad” thereof. Jack Loeffler was with him many of those times, as … Continue reading
House of Rain
House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest © 2007 Craig Childs 482 pages Throughout the southwest United States and northern Mexico there are ruins from a people long gone, people remembered as the Anasazi. The name … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged 2018 Peoples of the Americas, American Southwest, archaeology, history, Mexico, New Mexico, Peoples of the Americas series, travel
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Tyrannosaur Canyon
Tyrannosaur Canyon© 2006 Douglas Preston416 pages What do a ‘misplaced’ lunar sample and a fossil hunter shot dead in the high mesas of New Mexico have in common? Their shared secret is one that would answer one of humanity’s oldest … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, science fiction
Tagged American Southwest, Douglas Preston, New Mexico, science fiction, thriller
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Cities of Gold
Cities of Gold: A Journey Across the American Southwest in Pursuit of Coronado© 1992 Douglas Preston (Walter Nelson, Photographs)480 pages Sometimes, history has got to be pursued from the back of a horse. Douglas Preston wasn’t sure what took him … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged adventure, American Southwest, American West, Arizona, Douglas Preston, ecology, Native America, New Mexico, Spain, stewardship, travel
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The Mexican Frontier
The Mexican Frontier 1821 – 1846: The American Southwest Under Mexico© 1982 David Weber (University of New Mexico Press)440 pages In 1821, the people of Mexico declared their independence from Spain, recognizing that its Napoleonic straits meant that the mother … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged American Frontier, American Southwest, American West, California, history, Mexico, New Mexico, Spain, Texas
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Spain in the Southwest
Spain in the Southwest: A Narrative History© 2013 John Kessell480 In the early 1500s, the Spanish triumphed over the Aztecs and established a new Spain — an empire forged out of the new world. The equatorial tropics were only the … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged American Southwest, American West, Colonial America, Native America, New Mexico, Spain
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Week of Enchantment Video
Interested in seeing how Windows Movie Maker and Youtube worked, I “made” a video with 100 of my Week of Enchantment photos, set to music. Enjoy!
Week of Enchantment: Santa Fe, the City Beautiful
I headed for Santa Fe in the early dawn, driving even as the sun rose. I’d been assured that the capital’s traffic was nothing like Albuquerque’s, and found this to be the case. It didn’t want for cars, but the … Continue reading
Week of Enchantment: The Garden of Eden is Missing its Critters
From here I moved to the attached Gardens, one of the most beautiful, romantic, and sometimes weirdest spots in New Mexico. Beauty first: Moorish gardens open the area, ending in a tree-lined walkway that is utterly peaceful This goes around … Continue reading
Week of Enchantment: Tourists, Sharks, and Gardens, oh my!
Emerging from the natural history hours later, and returning to old town, I discovered that everyone else had woken up and joined me. Cars poured in and filled the once-empty plaza, but with them came pleasant music and even pleasanter … Continue reading
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