Volume 34, Number 4 · March 12, 1987
On the Trail of Santa Fe
By Robert M. Adams
New Mexico: A Guide to the Colorful State Project Administration.
for the American Guide Series by the Writers' Program of the Works
Hastings House
New Mexico: A New Guide to the Colorful State
by Lance Chilton, by Katherine Chilton, by Polly E. Arango, by James Dudley, by Nancy Neary, by Patricia Stelzner
University of New Mexico Press, 640 pp., $17.50 (paper)
Enchantment and Exploitation: The Life and Hard Times of a New Mexico Mountain Range
by William deBuys
University of New Mexico Press, 394 pp., $14.95 (paper)
Mercedes Reales: Hispanic Land Grants of the Upper Rio Grande Region
by Victor Westphall
University of New Mexico Press, 356 pp., $24.95
Four Leagues of Pecos: A Legal History of the Pecos Grant, 1800–1933
by G. Emlen Hall
University of New Mexico Press, 367 pp., $14.95 (paper)
New Mexico: A Bicentennial History
by Marc Simmons
Norton/American Association for State and Local History, 207 pp., $14.95
Along the Santa Fe Trail
essay by Marc Simmons, photographs by Joan Myers
University of New Mexico Press, 183 pp., $19.95 (paper)
Haunted Highways: The Ghost Towns of New Mexico
by Ralph Looney
University of New Mexico Press, 220 pp., $9.95 (paper)
Four Fighters of Lincoln County
by Robert M. Utley
University of New Mexico Press, 116 pp., $19.95
'How did you come to settle in New Mexico?' It is one of the most frequent ice-breaking questions in Santa Fe circles. It takes for granted that nearly everyone who lives here comes from somewhere else; and in Santa Fe, where there's very little business and hardly any industry, it's likely to produce a great many different, not to say freaky, answers. My wife and I, native New Yorkers, first looked on New Mexico with the eyes of prospective inhabitants in 1968, when after nearly twenty years of teaching at Cornell I found that university pointedly reluctant to go any way toward meeting an offer I had received from UCLA. Given a free summer to arrange a transfer from the East Coast to the West, we took a leisurely survey of what wasn't yet known as the Sunbelt.
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