Highmountain
Hero Member
New Mexico in Maps, Jerry L. Williams, UNM Press, 1986 – long out of print but the best single and comprehensive historical map resource I’ve ever seen. Worth paying out-of-print prices for.
Great River, Paul Horgan The best chronicle of the history of New Mexico and Texas I’ve ever read. I still refer to it frequently
The California Column in New Mexico, Darlis A Miller, a must for Civil War and post-Civil War researchers – lots of specifics
Joseph Reddeford Walker and the Arizona Expedition, Daniel Ellis Conner [early 1860s memoirs]
Marvelous Country, Samuel Cozzens [late 1850s]
The Deaths of the Bravos, John Myers Myers
Recollections of a Western Ranchman, William French, 1880s
Kiva, Cross and Crown, The Pecos Indians in New Mexico 1540-1840, John L. Kessell, UNM Press, 1990
By Force of Arms – The Journals of Diego de Vargas, 1691-1693, UNM Press 1990
The Gila Trail – The Texas Argonauts and the California Gold Rush [Diary] Benjamin Butler Harris, Oklahoma University Press, 1986
Violence in Lincoln County 1869-1881, William Keleher [the book to own if you’re only going to own one about the Lincoln Co War]
Ranch on the Ruidoso, Story of a Pioneer Family in New Mexico, 1871 – 1968 Wilbur Coe, lots of details about locations of you name it
Charles Goodnight, Cowman and Plainsman – J. Evetts Haley – This ought to be in the library of every NM and Texas MD searcher
Coronado’s Quest, A Grove Day – Long out of print but a lot of solid research and detail on locations
Countless others maybe other members will wish to add. Ben Kemp comes to mind offhand, along with the guy I can't recall the author name of at the moment Vigilantes In Socorro County.
This might serve as a starting place, anyway.
Jack
Great River, Paul Horgan The best chronicle of the history of New Mexico and Texas I’ve ever read. I still refer to it frequently
The California Column in New Mexico, Darlis A Miller, a must for Civil War and post-Civil War researchers – lots of specifics
Joseph Reddeford Walker and the Arizona Expedition, Daniel Ellis Conner [early 1860s memoirs]
Marvelous Country, Samuel Cozzens [late 1850s]
The Deaths of the Bravos, John Myers Myers
Recollections of a Western Ranchman, William French, 1880s
Kiva, Cross and Crown, The Pecos Indians in New Mexico 1540-1840, John L. Kessell, UNM Press, 1990
By Force of Arms – The Journals of Diego de Vargas, 1691-1693, UNM Press 1990
The Gila Trail – The Texas Argonauts and the California Gold Rush [Diary] Benjamin Butler Harris, Oklahoma University Press, 1986
Violence in Lincoln County 1869-1881, William Keleher [the book to own if you’re only going to own one about the Lincoln Co War]
Ranch on the Ruidoso, Story of a Pioneer Family in New Mexico, 1871 – 1968 Wilbur Coe, lots of details about locations of you name it
Charles Goodnight, Cowman and Plainsman – J. Evetts Haley – This ought to be in the library of every NM and Texas MD searcher
Coronado’s Quest, A Grove Day – Long out of print but a lot of solid research and detail on locations
Countless others maybe other members will wish to add. Ben Kemp comes to mind offhand, along with the guy I can't recall the author name of at the moment Vigilantes In Socorro County.
This might serve as a starting place, anyway.
Jack
