One of America’s foremost environmental writers joins with an acclaimed landscape photographer to create an unmatched portrait of the Sonoran Desert in all its harsh beauty. Winner, Southwest Book Award, Border Regional Library Association, 2007Runner-up, Honorable Mention, Orion Book Award, 2007 Charles Bowden has been an outspoken advocate for the desert Southwest since the 1970s. […]
Sierra San Luis
The remarkable Sierra San Luis forms the nexus of the Sierra Madres and the Rocky Mountains. The range runs north-south in the shape of a sleeping lizard. The high narrow pyramid of a head, Animas Peak, rests in the bootheel of New Mexico, and with a thin neck draped across the border the slumbering body […]
Photographs by Michael P. Berman
A two-volume, slip-cased set that includes 100 striking duotone photographs by Michael P. Berman and beautiful essays by numerous western writers, all edited by Mary Anne Redding. The forests comprising the Gila National Forest and Wilderness in southwestern New Mexico are the largest in the contiguous U.S., and are the most wild in nature.
A Listener’s Companion
A Listener’s Companion explores approximately the last century of American musical theater, beginning with the early–twentieth-century shift from European influenced operettas and bawdy variety shows to sophisticated works of seamlessly integrated masterpiece of text and music that is Hamilton. As a musician who works on Broadway and in developmental musical theater, Kat Sherrell draws on […]
Mesilla Valley History Series
“Quien es?” The answer to this incautious question – “Who is it?” – was a bullet to the heart. That bullet – fired by Lincoln County Sheriff Patrick F. Garrett from a .40-44 caliber single action Colt pistol – ended the life of Billy the Kid, real name William Henry McCarty. But death – ordinarily […]
Mesilla Valley History Series
Pat Garrett, the Wild West’s most famous lawman – the man who killed Billy the Kid — was himself killed on leap day, February 29, 1908, on a barren stretch of road between his Home Ranch and Las Cruces, New Mexico. Who killed him? Was it murder? Was it self-defense? Here for the first time, […]
