Main entry:

Noble, David Grant. author.

Title & Author:

Pueblos, villages, forts & trails : a guide to new Mexico's past / David Grant Noble.

Edition:

First ed.

Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [1994]

Description:

ix, 346 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Anazasu-Pueblo past. Acoma Pueblo -- Cochiti Pueblo -- Coronado State Monument -- Isleta Pueblo -- Jemez Pueblo and Jemez State Monument d-- Laguna Pueblo -- Nambe Pueblo -- Pecos National Historical Park -- Picuris Pueblo -- Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument -- Sandia Pueblo -- San Felipe Pueblo -- San Idelfonso Pueblo -- Santa Ana Pueblo -- Santa Clara Pueblo -- Santo Domingo Pueblo -- Taos Pueblo -- Tesuque Pueblo -- Zia Pueblo -- Zuñi Pueblo -- The Apacheans. The Jicarilla Apaches -- The Mescalero Apaches -- The Navajos -- New Mexican towns -- Abiquiu -- Albuquerque -- Chimayo -- Cimarron -- Las Trampas -- Las Vegas -- Lincoln State Monument -- Mesilla -- Mora -- San Miguel del Vado -- Santa Cruz -- Santa Fe -- Silver City and the Santa Rita mine -- Socorro -- Taos -- Tierra Amarilla -- Truchas -- Warfare in New Mexico. Fort Bayard -- Fort Burgwin -- Fort Craig National Historic site and the Battle of Valverde -- Fort Cummings -- Fort Marcy -- Fort Selden State Monument -- Fort Union -- Fort Wingate -- Glorieta Pass battlefield -- Pancho Villa State Park -- The Trinity site -- Historic trails. The Butterfield Trail -- El Camino Real -- The Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad -- The Goodnight and Loving Trail -- The Santa Fe Trail -- Other historic places. The Dorsey mansion -- Inscription Rock -- El Rancho de las Golondrinas -- The Salmon homestead.

Summary:

New Mexico's many historic sites have fascinated generations of travelers. From ancient Indian pueblos along the Rio Grande to colonial-era villages in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains to the ruins of Anglo-American forts in the desert, New Mexico contains a wealth of places steeped in history. Pueblos, Villages, Forts, and Trails is a profusely illustrated guidebook to sixty-four intriguing sites. With easy-to-follow road directions, it is the ideal companion as you explore the state. Noble's engaging writing and vivid photographs bring to life New Mexico's historic Indian, Hispano, and Anglo-American peoples and their contributions and interactions through the centuries. As you travel through the state with this book, you will be able to visualize Coronado's soldiers as they approached the Zuñi Pueblo of Hawikuh in 1540, eighteenth-century Spanish colonists defending their mountains hamlets of Chimayo and Truchas against Comanche raiders, Confederate and Union soldiers clashing at Glorieta, and Billy the Kid escaping from the jailhouse in Lincoln -- Book jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0826315143 (hbk.)
9780826315144 (hbk.)
0826315097 (pbk.)
9780826315090 (pbk.)
0826314856
9780826314857

Subject:

Historic sites New Mexico Guidebooks.
Automobile travel New Mexico Guidebooks.
Lieux historiques Nouveau-Mexique Guides.
Voyages en automobile Nouveau-Mexique Guides.
Automobile travel
Historic sites
New Mexico Guidebooks.
New Mexico History, Local.
Nouveau-Mexique Guides.
Nouveau-Mexique Histoire locale.
New Mexico
United States, New Mexico Land and property History
United States, New Mexico Colonization
United States, New Mexico History
United States, New Mexico Emigration and immigration
United States, New Mexico Indigenous peoples

Form/genre:

Nonfiction.
Guidebooks.
travel guidebooks.
Local history
Guides touristiques.

Added entries:

Pueblos, villages, forts and trails.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 121274
Call No.: ID F797.N6; ID:95-B2258
Status: Available