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Taos : a topical history / Corina A. Santistevan, executive editor ; Julia Moore, editor.
- Title
- Taos : a topical history / Corina A. Santistevan, executive editor ; Julia Moore, editor.
- Publication
- Santa Fe : Museum of New Mexico Press, 2013.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Santistevan, Corina.
- Description
- 349 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm
- Summary
- "This book is a substantial new account of this northern New Mexico town where three cultures-Tiwa, Spanish, and Anglo-have shared land, water, and traditions for much of modern history. The books twenty-six chapters, written by scholars and writers who have special knowledge of their subjects, deliver Taoss story in topical increments, beginning with a stirring chapter on the Taos Valleys highly dynamic geologic history and concluding with surveys of artists and writers who have made Taos famous." - from Amazon description.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Foreword / Marc Simmons -- Acknowledgments / Corina A. Santistevan -- Introduction / F.R. Bob Romero -- Formative epochs : the origins and evolution of the Taos landscape / Paul W. Bauer -- Archaeology and the pre-European history of the Taos Valley / Jeffrey L. Boyer -- Caminos antiguos : trails into the Taos Valley / Charles C. Hawk -- Taos' early trade economy / Elizabeth Cunningham and Skip Keith Miller -- Land grants : tierras de la gente / F. R. Bob Romero -- Borregos y trigo : a culture of sheep and wheat / John O. Baxter -- Taos ciboleros : Hispanic bison hunters / Jery A. Padilla -- Defiant Taos / Robert J. Torrez -- 1847 : revolt or resistance? / Alberto Vidaurre -- Taos, the Jicarilla Apache, and the Battle of Cieneguilla / David M. Johnson, Chris Adams, Larry Ludwig, and Charles C. Hawk -- A mutiny in Taos, 1855 / John B. Ramsay -- Taos and the American Civil War / Jerry A. Padilla -- Taos Pueblo, past and recent / John J. Bodine -- Taos Pueblo : a personal journey through time / Vernon G. Lujan -- "Sin agua, no hay vida" : acequia culture / John Nichols -- The tradition of cooperation / Oclides Quintana Tenorio -- Sacred places / Michael Miller -- Padre Martínez and the Penitente Brotherhood / Rev. Juan Romero -- A culture of celebrations / Oclides Quintana Tenorio -- Taos art colony and the Taos arts community / Mildred Tolbert -- When nothing was store-bought / Dorothy Zopf -- Four centuries of weavers and weaving in Taos / Juanita Jaramillo Lavadie -- Writing about Taos through four centuries / Nita Murphy and Arthur Bachrach.
- ISBN
- 9780890135822 (cloth)
- 0890135827 (cloth)
- LCCN
- ^^2013029089
- OCLC
- 853313669
- SCSB-10834173
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library