True stories of the Land of Enchantment's most infamous crooks, culprits, and cutthroats.
Twenty-nine fascinating vignettes by a noted Southwest historian.
Renowned historian of the American West, Frederick Nolan, author of The West of Billy the Kid and The Lincoln County War: A Documentary History, noted that with the publication of this new book Maddox has "written a whole new chapter in ...
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press Veteran treasure hunter and folklorist W.C. Jameson presetns twenty-six colorful, inriguing and mysterious stories about fortunes lost and found in the mountains and deserts ...
Collected here are authentic accounts of some of the most colorful outlaws and desperadoes of the western frontier, based to a large extent on 19th-century newspaper accounts of their activities...
From the story of the lost Adams gold to the legends and legendary lawlessness of Lincoln, Myths and Mysteries of New Mexico makes history fun and pulls back the curtain on some of the state's most fascinating and compelling stories.
He mounted a formal expedition to find the cave entrance with a European mountain climber, Kurt Richardson, and an English illustrator, Julia Purcell, to map out the rock formations. The trio got close to finding the location on the ...
... 109–10, 201–02, 232 West Sanatorium, 104 Wiley, Fred and Hope, 140–41 Wiley, Gladys, 140–41 Wiley, R. W., 114 Wiley, Tom, 204–05, 212–13 Wilson, Nellie, 90–91 Wilson, Woodrow, 91, 179 Women's Home Missionary Society, 119, 122–23, ...
Presents a collection of folklore, tall tales, and myths surrounding such characters as Belle Starr, Frank and Jesse James, and Wild Bill Hickok
New Mexico rancher and lawman Dee (Daniel R.) Harkey describes himself as having “been shot at more times than any man in the world not engaged in war.” Mean as Hell, originally published in 1948 when Harkey was 83, is his detailed, ...
From the story of the lost Adams gold to the legends and legendary lawlessness of Lincoln, Myths and Mysteries of New Mexico makes history fun and pulls back the curtain on some of the state’s most fascinating and compelling stories.