In New Mexico Odyssey, Toby Smith goes on the road to find memorable people, engage them in conversation, and come away with good stories to share with us. We motor along on Route 66 the length of the state encountering towns and people who've seen better times but aren't sorry about what they did or how they did it. In Las Vegas we meet an artist working in an abandoned railroad roundhouse, while in Las Cruces we drop in an engineering students building a concrete boat for a race in the Rio Grande. Smith takes us to every part of the state and at each stop he introduces us to someone who will amuse, inform, or capture our interest and imagination. New Mexico Odyssey serves to remind us that highways are more than asphalt of concrete divided by a golden dash. They are invitations to discovery. Everyone who travels in New Mexico will find these stories entertaining and enlightening.--Cover

In New Mexico Odyssey, Toby Smith goes on the road to find memorable people, engage them in conversation, and come away with good stories to share with us. We motor along on Route 66 the length of the state encountering towns and people who've seen better times but aren't sorry about what they did or how they did it. In Las Vegas we meet an artist working in an abandoned railroad roundhouse, while in Las Cruces we drop in an engineering students building a concrete boat for a race in the Rio Grande. Smith takes us to every part of the state and at each stop he introduces us to someone who will amuse, inform, or capture our interest and imagination. New Mexico Odyssey serves to remind us that highways are more than asphalt of concrete divided by a golden dash. They are invitations to discovery. Everyone who travels in New Mexico will find these stories entertaining and enlightening.--Cover

"Most, but not all, scholars believe that the artists of the Segesser paintings were probably Spanish-trained artists in New Mexico who had the benefit of eyewitness descriptions. Kelly Donahue presents the background of the hide painting tradition and its derivation from the European print industry, among other sources, in Chapter 2; while Howard Rodee, in Chapter 3, examines the possibility that the artist was Native American or mestizo. In Chapter 7, Thomas Steele, S.J., proposes the identity of a hide painter working in the Santa Fe area at the time of the Segesser paintings, giving us an impression of the career of such an artist. Angélico Chávez, O.F.M., presents two intriguing possibilities for the identities of the artists who created the Segesser paintings in Chapter 6"--Page 23.

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"A fascinating account of Apache history and ethnography. All the narratives have been carefully chosen to illustrate important facets of the Apache experience. Moreover, they make very interesting reading....This is a major contribution to both Apache history and to the history of the Southwest....The book should appeal to a very wide audience. It also should be well received by the Native American community. Indeh is oral history at its best."---R. David Edmunds, Utah Historical Quarterly

On their return to New Mexico from El Paso after the 1680 Pueblo Revolt, the New Mexican settlers were confronted with continuous raids by hostile Indians tribes, disease and an inhospitable landscape. In spite of this, in the early and mid-eighteenth century, the New Mexicans went about their daily lives as best they could, as shown in original documents from the time. The documents show them making deals, traveling around the countryside and to and from El Paso and Mexico City, complaining about and arguing with each other, holding festivals, and making plans for the future of their children. It also shows them interacting with the presidio soldiers, the Franciscan friars and Inquisition officials, El Paso and Chihuahua merchants, the occasional Frenchman, and their Pueblo Indian allies. Because many of the documents include oral testimony, we are able to read what they had to say, sometimes angry, asking for help, or giving excuses for their behavior, as written down by a scribe at the time. This book includes fifty-four original handwritten documents from the early and mid-eighteenth century. Most of the original documents are located in the Spanish Archives of New Mexico, although some are from the Bancroft Library at the University of California at Berkeley, the Archivo General de la Nacion in Mexico City, and elsewhere. They were selected for their description of Spanish Colonial life, of interest to the many descendants of the characters that appear in them, and because they tell a good story. A translation and transcription of each document is included as well as a synopsis, background notes, and biographical notes. They can be considered a companion, in part, to Ralph Emerson Twitchell’s 1914 two volumes, The Spanish Archives of New Mexico, summarizing the documents of the Spanish Archives of New Mexico, now available in new editions from Sunstone Press.