West central New Mexico offers some of the most diverse and fascinating landforms in the Southwest. Volcanic activity shaped the tortured landscape of El Malpais in the recent geologic past. The broad mass of Mount Taylor, an 11,389-foot volcano from another age, is the setting for a popular quadrathlon. And the gentle and park-like Zuni Mountains are ideal for hiking, biking, or a Sunday drive. 
The three areas provide unique outdoor experiences made more accessible by Sherry Robinson's El Malpais, Mt. Taylor, and the Zuni Mountains. Descriptions of hiking trails for each area include levels of difficulty, access, directions, photographs, and maps. Biking, skiing, caving, and auto tours are also included. 
Learning about the natural history of this special place can only enhance the experience, so Robinson provides descriptions of the geology, flora, and fauna of all three areas. She covers the region's unusual and little known history in lively and readable accounts that include the Acoma, Zuni, Laguna, and Navajo people's use of and relationship to the area.
Whether you're a hiking buff or history buff, an outdoor enthusiast or an armchair traveler, you'll enjoy El Malpais, Mt. Taylor, and the Zuni Mountains.

El Malpais, Mt. Taylor, and the Zuni Mountains: A Hiking Guide and History (Coyote Books Series)

History

Robinson, Sherry

Americas

UNM Press

Oral histories by Apache elders who survived army campaigns against them, later identified as the sons and daughters of Geronimo, Cochise, Victorio, and their warriors, form a history and profile of the Apaches.

Apache Voices: Their Stories of Survival As Told to Eve Ball

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Univ of New Mexico Pr

In the 1940s and 1950s, long before historians fully accepted oral tradition as a source, Eve Ball (1890-1984) was taking down verbatim the accounts of Apache elders who had survived the army's campaigns against them in the last century. These oral histories offer new versions--from Warm Springs, Chiricahua, Mescalero, and Lipan Apache--of events previously known only through descriptions left by non-Indians.
A high school and college teacher, Ball moved to Ruidoso, New Mexico, in 1942. Her house on the edge of the Mescalero Apache Reservation was a stopping-off place for Apaches on the dusty walk into town. She quickly realized she was talking to the sons and daughters of Geronimo, Cochise, Victorio, and their warriors. After winning their confidence, Ball would ultimately interview sixty-seven people.
Here is the Apache side of the story as told to Eve Ball. Including accounts of Victorio's sister Lozen, a warrior and medicine woman who was the only unmarried woman allowed to ride with the men, as well as unflattering portrayals of Geronimo's actions while under attack, and Mescalero scorn for the horse thief Billy the Kid, this volume represents a significant new source on Apache history and lifeways.

Apache Voices: Their Stories of Survival as Told to Eve Ball

Veteran journalist and author Sherry Robinson presents readers with the first full biography of New Mexico's first territorial governor, James Silas Calhoun. Robinson explores Calhoun's early life in Georgia and his military service in the Mexican War and how they led him west. Through exhaustive research Robinson shares Calhoun's story of arriving in New Mexico in 1849--a turbulent time in the region--to serve as its first Indian agent. Inhabitants were struggling to determine where their allegiances lay; they had historic and cultural ties with Mexico, but the United States offered an abundance of possibilities. An accomplished attorney, judge, legislator, and businessman and an experienced speaker and negotiator who spoke Spanish, Calhoun was uniquely qualified to serve as the first territorial governor only eighteen months into his service. While his time on the New Mexico political scene was brief, he served with passion, intelligence, and goodwill, making him one of the most intriguing political figures in the history of New Mexico.

James Silas Calhoun: First Governor of New Mexico Territory and First Indian Agent

Historical

My Secrets Cry Aloud by Sherry Robinson is a highly creative and touching novel about seven women who have lived in the same house over a period of two hundred years. Each woman leaves behind journal entries read by every woman who comes after her, thereby revealing not only the historical times of each woman's life, but the quotidian lives of joy and disappointment, family and community, experienced by them all. From the former slave to the young law student, the elderly pioneer to the homemaker in search of her identity, the teenager struggling with abandonment to the woman surviving divorce, Robinson delves into the women's condition with compassion and a keen eye. There is an assumption that we are comprised of those who came before us. Robinson takes this to a new dimension when she shows that a house can be a substitute for genetic history, and that those living under its roof become a part of its historical personality.

My Secrets Cry Aloud

Literature & Fiction

Literary

BookSurge Publishing

Winner of the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award in History, 2013. Winner of the Fray Francisco Atanasio Dominguez Award, Historical Society of New Mexico, 2014. First runner-up for a Zia Award from New Mexico Press Women, 2015. This history of the Lipan Apaches, from archeological evidence to the present, tells the story of some of the least known, least understood people in the Southwest. These plains buffalo hunters and traders were one of the first groups to acquire horses, and with this advantage they expanded from the Panhandle across Texas and into Coahuila, coming into conflict with the Comanches. With a knack for making friends and forging alliances, they survived against all odds, and were still free long after their worst enemies were corralled on reservations. In the most thorough account yet published, Sherry Robinson tracks the Lipans from their earliest interactions with Spaniards and kindred Apache groups through later alliances and to their love-hate relationships with Mexicans, Texas colonists, Texas Rangers, and the US Army. For the first time we hear of the Eastern Apache confederacy of allied but autonomous groups that joined for war, defense, and trade. Among their confederates, and led by chiefs with a diplomatic bent, Lipans drew closer to the Spanish, Mexicans, and Texans. By the 1880s, with their numbers dwindling and ground lost to Mexican campaigns and Mackenzie’s raids, the Lipans roamed with Mescalero Apaches, some with Victorio. Many remained in Mexico, some stole back into Texas, and others melted into reservations where they had relatives. They never surrendered.

I Fought a Good Fight: A History of the Lipan Apaches

University of North Texas Press

In the most thorough account yet published, Sherry Robinson tells the story of the Lipan Apaches from their earliest interactions with Spaniards and kindred Apache groups through later alliances and to their love-hate relationships with Mexicans, Texas colonists, Texas Rangers, and the U.S. Army. 
“This definitive tribal history is all the more important because the Lipan—the most eastern Apache tribe—are historically understudied and underappreciated. Sherry Robinson left no stone unturned to produce her detailed account of the Lipan Apaches from their earliest beginnings to the twenty-first century.”—Western Historical Quarterly 
“In a sweeping study that spans four centuries, Sherry Robinson has produced the most concise history of the Lipan Apache tribe to date. . . . Furthermore, the ethnohistorical emphasis and inclusion of oral history and tradition grants agency and voice to Native peoples. . . . [T]he accessible writing style is factually dense and offers the first exhaustive historical account of the Lipan Apaches.”—Journal of Arizona History

Echo Her Lovely Bones

United States

Shadelandhouse Modern Press, LLC

Shadows Hold Their Breath takes place with the backdrop of the 1970s feminist movement and in the final years of the Vietnam War. It tells the story of Kat Hunter, a woman who decides that the only way she can understand her unresolved grief and discover who she is meant to be is to do the unthinkable-the unforgivable. In October 1979, six years after suffering the loss of Beth, her dear friend and sister-in-law, to enemy mortar fire near the village of Qu?ng Ngãi, Vietnam, Kat begins to question everything about her traditional life. In the middle of the night, she slips away from her home in Lexington, Kentucky, her husband, and her three young daughters and boards a Greyhound bus with no specific destination in mind. On the bus, she meets Molly, a young woman who reminds her of Beth. With nowhere else to go, Kat follows Molly and Molly's boyfriend, Jake, to Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Once there, Kat guards the secret that she is married and has abandoned her children to the care of her husband. Kat's journey of self-discovery ultimately leads her down an unexpected path-but what is she willing to sacrifice for that journey?"Like [Henrik] Ibsen's A Doll's House and [Kate] Chopin's The Awakening, Shadows Hold Their Breath explores one woman's decision to leave her husband and children rather than crumble under the weight of patriarchal roles. Kat is also burdened by grief and an unspoken love that perhaps even in her nascent self-awareness is still taboo. The novel offers no easy answers, no pure absolution, just Kat's honest quest to accept-and live-her truth," according to Marie Manilla, author of The Patron Saint of Ugly (Mariner Books, 2014; winner of the 2014 Weatherford Award).

Shadows Hold Their Breath

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El Malpais, Mt. Taylor, and the Zuni Mountains: A Hiking Guide and History (Coyote Books Series)

Apache Voices: Their Stories of Survival As Told to Eve Ball

Apache Voices: Their Stories of Survival as Told to Eve Ball

James Silas Calhoun: First Governor of New Mexico Territory and First Indian Agent

James Silas Calhoun: First Governor of New Mexico Territory and First Indian Agent

My Secrets Cry Aloud

I Fought a Good Fight: A History of the Lipan Apaches

I Fought a Good Fight: A History of the Lipan Apaches

Echo Her Lovely Bones

Shadows Hold Their Breath