The Last Conquistador: Juan De Onate and the Settling of the Far Southwest

Marc Simmons

University of Oklahoma Press

Albuquerque: A narrative history

University of New Mexico Press

Along the Santa Fe Trail

Joan Myers' rich black-and-white photographs of the area surrounding the Santa Fe Trail are accompanied by an historical essay by author Marc Simmons. Text and photographs combine to realize a vivid sense of what the trail was like throughout its 60 years of use and what has become of its remains today. An evocative visual and historical retracing of one of the most important overland trade routes of the nineteenth century.

History

World

The rock-ribbed hills surrounding Cerrillos, New Mexico, are honeycombed with mineshafts and it is these mines that have shaped the history of the town and of the district over which it presides. The Pueblo Indians for untold ages took out turquoise; the Spaniards in their turn found gold, silver and lead; and finally, the Anglo-Americans exploited all of these in addition to copper, zinc and coal. Mining gave life to Cerrillos and to neighboring towns such as Bonanza City, Carbonateville, Waldo and Madrid. And when the boom passed and the mines closed, that life ebbed away. Scattered over the hills and in the valleys everywhere are skeletal remains of mining activity: deserted buildings, black and foreboding entrances to shafts, broken tools and equipment, fallen timbers from the windlasses, gallows and hoist houses, tailing dumps and slag heaps. These offer silent testimony to the once prosperous past of the Cerrillos mining district and are an appeal for all students of history.

Turquois and Six-Guns: The Story of Cerrillos, New Mexico

Literature & Fiction

United States

Sunstone Press

<p>Here are the papers given at the October 1984 conference on the first European settlement among the Indian Pueblos and the first Spanish-designated capital of the territory which is now New Mexico, held at San Juan Pueblo, New Mexico. The book includes the papers given by Orlando Romero, Florence Hawley Ellis, Marc Simmons, Myra Ellen Jenkins, Richard I. Ford and Jim Sagel. Illustrated with photographs, and contains a bibliography and a foreword by Herman Agoyo and Lynnwood Brown.</p>

When Cultures Meet: Remembering San Gabriel Del Yunge Oweenge

Florence Hawley Ellis

Myra Ellen Jenkins

Americas

When was Santa Fe under siege? Who was the local witch reputed to fly around in an egg? Which governor found his chair thrown into the street? Why were Judge Eaton's burros so expensive? What was the Santa Fe-Granada, Spain connection? What city celebration was sixty years too soon? Which governor paid a bribe to win a horse race? Who was ''Telegraph'' Aubry and why was he famous? What ended the usefulness of the Santa Fe Trail? If you don't know the answers to these questions, Marc Simmons does. And in this witty but historically accurate book, he takes readers on a fact-filled but fun journey into Santa Fe, New Mexico's unusual past.

Yesterday in Santa Fe (Western Legacy History Series)

Stalking Billy the Kid

'Having written about New Mexico history for more than forty years,' explains the author, 'it was perhaps inevitable that in time I should publish a few articles on Billy the Kid. After all, he is the one figure from this state's past whose name is known around the world. The Kid's career, although astonishingly short, nonetheless, left an indelible mark in the annals of the Old West. And his name, William H. Bonney, alias Billy the Kid, seems locked forever into the consciousness of the starry-eyed public. Upon request,' the author continues, 'I was able to assemble a collection of my varied writings pertaining to some of Billy's real or imagined deeds. Each section opens a small window on an aspect of his tumultuous life, or casts light upon others whose fortunes intersected with his. In this book, I have stalked Billy in an erratic rather than a systematic way, taking pleasure merely in adding a few new and unusual fragments to his biography. I trust that readers who have a fascination with the history and legend of Billy the Kid will find in these pages something of interest and value. As Eugene Cunningham wrote more than seventy years ago, 'in our imagination the Kid still lives--the Kid still rides.''

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

'Having written about New Mexico history for more than forty years,' explains the author, 'it was perhaps inevitable that in time I should publish a few articles on Billy the Kid. After all, he is the one figure from this state's past whose name is known around the world. The Kid's career, although astonishingly short, nonetheless, left an indelible mark in the annals of the Old West. And his name, William H. Bonney, alias Billy the Kid, seems locked forever into the consciousness of the starry-eyed public. Upon request, I was able to assemble a collection of my varied writings pertaining to some of Billy's real or imagined deeds. Each section opens a small window on an aspect of his tumultuous life, or casts light upon others whose fortunes intersected with his. In this book, I have stalked Billy in an erratic rather than a systematic way, taking pleasure merely in adding a few new and unusual fragments to his biography. I trust that readers who have a fascination with the history and legend of Billy the Kid will find in these pages something of interest and value. As Eugene Cunningham wrote more than seventy years ago, 'in our imagination the Kid still lives--the Kid still rides.'

<p>Colonial blacksmiths were more common in the Southwest and their work more sophisticated than has generally been recognized. They forged all manner of domestic utensils and hardware and served as gunsmiths, armorers and farriers. This book is the first historical and practical survey of the full range of ornamental and utilitarian ironwork used and made by Spanish people in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas from the 1500s to about 1850, and is one of the most complete pictures of any Southwestern colonial craft. It presents, also for the first time, a detailed summary of the distinctive methods employed by the old Hispanic smiths. The book contains two parts. The first looks at the early iron manufacturing and blacksmithing industries of Spain and Mexico. The second deals with the colonial smith, his equipment, his methods, and the products of his forge. Information on these subjects has been derived from documents such as wills of blacksmiths, supply lists of expeditions, and</p>

Southwestern Colonial Ironwork: The Spanish Blacksmithing Tradition

Engineering & Transportation

Frank Turley

Engineering

Author, photographer, historian, archeologist, and preservationist, Charles Fletcher Lummis stood tall in the affections of American Southwesterners at the turn of the 20th century. A flamboyant figure of enormous energy, he championed Indian rights and Hispanic culture, while introducing Easterners, through his many books, to the rich heritage of New Mexico, Arizona, and California.After years of fading from view, the large Lummis legacy is being rediscovered. His works are coming back into print and in 2006 the city of Los Angeles inaugurated an annual Lummis Day Festival. This little book can acquaint readers with a remarkable recorder of history and can help to reawaken interest in his efforts to preserve the distinctive cultures of the American Southwest. Additionally, this book contains, as its first chapter, the complete contents of the classic Two Southwesterners: Charles Lummis & Amado Chaves by Marc Simmons, originally published by San Marcos Press in 1968 and long unavailable until now.

Charles F. Lummis (Softcover)

Arts & Literature

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Books by Marc Simmons

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The Last Conquistador: Juan De Onate and the Settling of the Far Southwest

Albuquerque: A narrative history

Along the Santa Fe Trail

Turquois and Six-Guns: The Story of Cerrillos, New Mexico

When Cultures Meet: Remembering San Gabriel Del Yunge Oweenge

Yesterday in Santa Fe (Western Legacy History Series)

Stalking Billy the Kid

Stalking Billy the Kid

Southwestern Colonial Ironwork: The Spanish Blacksmithing Tradition

Charles F. Lummis (Softcover)