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Lynda Kouba
- Sep 24, 2021
Portraits of Basques in the New World edited by Richard W. Etulain and Jeronima Echeverria
Reviewed in Volume 75:3, July 2000 of the New Mexico Historical Review, this book contains thirteen biographical essays and covers familiar explorers and colonizers (Juan de Oñate and Juan Bautista de Anza) as well as pioneer California and Nevada rancher Pedro Altube, “Father of the Basques of the American West, “and includes the “confession” of a female teenage Montana sheepherder, as well as Robert Erburu, the former president, CEO, and board chairman of The Times Mirror C
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Lynda Kouba
- Sep 24, 2021
The Tortilla Quilt, The Tamale Quilt, The Piñata Quilt, The Burrito Boy by Jane Tenorio-Coscarelli
These are four of the books written by Jane Tenorio-Coscarelli. A review of the first book in a back issue of Noticias para Los Californianos and as a lover of quilts, as well as tortillas, tamales, piñatas and burritos, we could not resist bringing these bilingual children’s books to the attention of our readers. The books contain stories, recipes, and quilt patterns. The books may not still be in print (Quarter-Inch Publishing, 39165 Silktree Drive, Murrieta, California), b
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Lynda Kouba
- Sep 24, 2021
Sacred Seeds: A Girl, Her Abuelos, & the Heart of Northern New Mexico
Former U.S. Ambassador to Honduras Mari-Luci Jaramillo tells stories from her own life growing up on a remote ranch in the 1930s in Northern New Mexico. Illustrates how author learned to value community, faith, love, tradition, and learning. Features family photographs and sketches by Navarrete.
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Lynda Kouba
- Sep 24, 2021
Brujerias: Stories of Witchcraft & thE Supernatural in the American Southwest & Beyond
Tales of sorcerers, fiendish witches, apparitions and balls of fire via sixty-four narrators ranging in age from 17 to 98, connecting the New World to España. Includes glossary of regional Spanish dialect of Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado. Author is Nasario Garcia who is a native New Mexican and folklorist and author of Old Las Vegas: Hispanic Memories from the New Mexico Meadowlands.
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Lynda Kouba
- Sep 5, 2021
Witch Stories of New Mexico
Witch Stores of New Mexico: Folklore of Nueva España by Edmundo R. Delgado (Santa Fe, NM: author) During the Great Depression of the 1930s the Writer’s Project of the WPA collected short stories in New Mexico and 60 years later the author recompiled and edited the collection. Delgado captures the language of Northern New Mexico—and the stories are told in both English and Spanish.
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Lynda Kouba
- Sep 5, 2021
Pleas and Petitions
Pleas and Petitions: Hispano Culture and Legislative Conflict in Territorial Colorado by Virginia Sánchez (University Press of Colorado, July 2019), 392 pp. It is an honor to recommend this book written by one of GSHA’s outstanding researchers, who is also a popular presenter at the Society’s genealogical conferences. Her latest book is hot off the press and “sheds new light on the political obstacles, cultural conflicts, and institutional racism experienced by Hispano legisl
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Lynda Kouba
- Sep 3, 2021
Foreigners in Their Native Land
Foreigners in Their Native Land: Historical Roots of the Mexican Americans By David J. Weber, Editor (University of New Mexico Press, 2004) This book provides the much-needed historical perspective that is essential for a full understanding of the present. Dozens of selections from firsthand accounts, introduced by the editor's knowledgeable essays capture the flavor and mood of the Mexican American experience in the Southwest from the time the first pioneers came north from
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Lynda Kouba
- Sep 3, 2021
Historical Documents Relating to New Mexico, Etc.
Historical Documents Relating to New Mexico, Nueva Vizcaya, and Approaches Thereto, to 1773 Spanish Texts and English Translations Volume 2 by Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier, Fanny R. Bandelier, Charles Wilson Hackett (Lebanon, NJ: Franklin Classics, October 2018), 524 pp. This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923, and may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original art
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Lynda Kouba
- Sep 3, 2021
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World’s Greatest Library, by Edward Wilson-Lee (Scribner, 2018), 401 pp. The author tells the story of the first and greatest visionary of the print age, a man who saw how the explosive expansion of knowledge and information generated by the advent of the printing press would entirely change the landscape of thought and society. He also happened to be Christopher Columbus’s illegitim
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