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New Mexico's Spanish legacy has informed the cultural traditions of one of the last states to join the union for more than four hundred years, or before the alluring capital of Santa Fe was founded in 1610. The fame the region gained from artist Georgia O'Keefe, writers Lew Wallace and D. H. Lawrence, and pistolero Billy the Kid has made New Mexico an international tourist destination.

This is a journey of discovering Lost New Mexico, an ongoing collection of almost lost stories from the state of New Mexico’s rich history. Stories include a mix of old family stories, local lore, almost famous folks, and more. Trips back in time await you. Encounter everything from wild adventures of the old west, mysterious murders and just about everything in-between. Meet notable, as well as a few notorious, New Mexicans along the way. Visit the website: LostNewMexico.com for additional resources, including story photos and transcripts. Uncover the less known, but not less fascinating,...

Anything and Everything even associated with New Mexico. Interesting Stories about People, Places and Things of "The Land Of Enchantment", New Mexico USA ! From Her Prairies, to the Rocky Mountains, Canyons, Peaks, Rivers and Creeks. She's a Proud Symbol of Blended Cultures With a Rich history of Pioneers and Proud Indigenous people. She is Outlaws, Lawmen, and Legends She Is truly Enchanting...…She is her own Universe You are now In "The New Mexico World"

Peter Dale Scott has written extensively on the Kennedy assassination and other dark corners of the American political scene. His encyclopedic knowledge enables him to connect the dots among the players, the organizations, and the unacknowledged collusions--the deep politics-- of our often troubled political system. Deep Politics on Oswald, Mexico, and Cuba, originally published in 1995, narrows the focus of Scott's earlier Deep Politics and the Death of JFK.

On July 16, 1945, just weeks before the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that brought about the surrender of Japan and the end of WWII, the US unleashed the world's first atomic bomb at the Trinity testing site located in the remote Tularosa Valley in New Mexico. In The First Atomic Bomb Janet Farrell Brodie explores the history of the Trinity test and those whose contributions have rarely been discussed—the men and women who constructed, served, and witnessed the first test—as well as the downwinders who suffered the consequences of radiation.

Kat shines a light on New Mexico history and genealogy, discussing her own ancestry adventures, along with primas and primos who love to talk about those who came before us. Having only learned about the rich and complicated Manito culture in 2011, Kat is on a mission to explore more and spread the word about our fascinating history and contributions.

New Mexico's deep artistic traditions have long engaged with the multifaceted histories and cultures of the state. At Encounter Culture, we talk with artists, historians, scientists, museum curators, and writers who are all a part of New Mexico's centuries' old lineage of helping us understand the places and people who make the Land of Enchantment so unique. https://podcast.nmculture.org/

This thought-provoking book examines gang history in the region encompassing West Texas, Southern New Mexico, and Northern Chihuahua, Mexico. Known as the El Paso-Juárez borderland region, the area contains more than three million people spanning 130 miles from east to west. Mike Tapia examines this region by exploring a century of historical developments through a criminological lens and by studying the diverse subcultures on both sides of the law.

Los nuevos herederos de Zapata: Campesinos en movimiento, 1920-2012, abarca la historia del movimiento campesino en México desde poco antes de la Revolución hasta la primera mitad del sexenio de Enrique Peña Nieto. Traza un mapa del recorrido del movimiento social y registra el resurgimiento del movimiento indígena en el país.

Hidden in the mountains, the indigenous peoples of Mexico have kept alive the spiritual path of the ancient Toltecs, one of the most powerful Mesoamerican spiritual traditions alive today. Tracing their lineage to a time before the Aztec, the Toltecs recognize Earth as a living being, share a profound communion with their land, and demonstrate unusual powers of perception.