The underground world of con men, winos, prostitutes, laborers, and artists has been an abundant source of material for great writers from Dickens to Bukowski. The underground world of Taos, New Mexico, is no different. In the late 1950s this mountain town was higher, brighter, poorer, and farther removed than London, Paris, or Los Angeles, but it was every bit as rich for the explorations of a young writer. Max Evans, the beloved New Mexican writer of such enduring classics of Western fiction as The Rounders and The Hi-Lo Country, returns to form with The King of Taos. Set in the late 1950s, the novel tells the stories of sharp-witted Zacharias Chacon, aspiring artist Shaw Spencer, and a circle of characters who drink, fight, love, argue, and—mostly—talk. Readers will enjoy this witty and moving evocation of unforgettable characters as they look for work, love, comfort, dignity, and bottomless oblivion.

Lewis Hector Garrard's (1829 - 1887) classic account of his travels through the southwestern United States in 1846-1847 contains the following chapters: I. The Start II. The Trail III. The Village IV. Peculiarities V. The Fort VI. The Dance VII. Strangers and Drawbacks VIII. The Snow Tramp IX. Prospective Trouble X. El Rio De Las Animas XI. El Rio Vermejo XII. El Rancho XIII. El Valle De Taos XIV. El Conselo XV. San Fernandez XVI. Los Pueblos XVII. El Muerte XVIII. Adios! XIX. Wah-To-Yah XX. The Farm XXI. The Arkansas XXII. Service XXIII. A Welcome Arrival XXIV. The Brush XXV. Farewell!

DIVNearly 100 tales offer an unparalleled glimpse into beliefs, culture of Pueblo Indians: "The Kachina Suitors and Coyote," "The Envious Hunter," "The Jealous Girls," "Echo Boy," many more. /div

"An exciting yarn and good reading". (Los Angeles Times)

In 1967, Reies Lopez Tijerina led an armed takeover of a New Mexico courthouse in the name of land rights for disenfranchised Spanish-speaking locals. The small-scale raid surprisingly thrust Tijerina and his cause into the national spotlight, catalyzing an entire generation of activists. The actions of Tijerina and his group, the Alianza Federal de Mercedes (the Federal Alliance of Land Grants), demanded that Americans attend to an overlooked part of the country's history: the United States was an aggressive empire that had conquered and colonized the Southwest and subsequently wrenched land away from border people—Mexicans and Native Americans alike. To many young Mexican American activists at the time, Tijerina and the Alianza offered a compelling and militant alternative to the nonviolence of Cesar Chavez and Martin Luther King Jr. Tijerina's place at the table among the nation's leading civil rights activists was short-lived, but his analysis of land dispossession and his prophetic zeal for the rights of his people was essential to the creation of the Chicano movement. This fascinating full biography of Tijerina (1926–2015) offers a fresh and unvarnished look at one of the most controversial, criticized, and misunderstood activists of the civil rights era. Basing her work on painstaking archival research and new interviews with key participants in Tijerina's life and career, Lorena Oropeza traces the origins of Tijerina's revelatory historical analysis to the years he spent as a Pentecostal preacher and his hidden past as a self-proclaimed prophet of God. Confronting allegations of anti-Semitism and accusations of sexual abuse, as well as evidence of extreme religiosity and possible mental illness, Oropeza's narrative captures the life of a man--alternately mesmerizing and repellant--who changed our understanding of the American West and the place of Latinos in the fabric of American struggles for equality and self-determination.

Traces the history of the art of New Mexico and examines the works of Hispanic and Indian artists of the region.

​Taos is a mouse wizard with green eyes, who likes to solve different tasks using his magic knowledge."The frog tells Taos I came from the kingdom of Qiu Lim.My great king sent me to bring you to him."In this book, Taos is returning from the Raul' mountain, while he hears someone calling him.Taos help is requested by a king...This is the last book from Taos the Wizard Mouse series.