A documentary photographer turns his camera to the cars and people who make up Albuquerque's lowrider culture, capturing this unique community with honesty and deep reverence. Seventh and Central is a photographic tribute to Albuquerque's vibrant lowrider culture-an immersive visual journey through a tradition rooted in family, art, and ......
Moe Sedway, "Bugsy" Siegel, and the Birth of Organized Crime in Las Vegas
The story of Moe Sedway, the eponymous "shadow" to Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, from his days as Bugsy's right hand associate to his suspected role in Bugsy's unsolved disappearance, and the role Sedway played in the creation of modern Las Vegas. Early in the Prohibition era, Moe Sedway became part of the New York organized crime gang led by Meyer ......
Author and historian Garrett Peck traces Willa Cather's adventures in the Southwest and how they influenced her best book. Six months before she died, Willa Cather called her 1927 novel Death Comes for the Archbishop her "best book." The Atlantic magazine concurred, including Archbishop on its Great American Novels list in 2024. A perennial ......
One of the most important archaeological discoveries of the last century, which rocked the field of archaeology and fundamentally shifted our collective knowledge of human occupation in the Americas. On a warm winter day in 2005, while mending fences in the backcountry of White Sands National Park, David F. Bustos, the park's biologist turned ......
Photographic masterpiece on beloved White Sands National Park; now in paperback. Winner of the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for Photography. Like Ansel Adams in a contemporary and pristine setting. Powerfully relevant today. Winner of the 2018 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award's Father Thomas J. Steele Award for History Award-winning photographer ......
From Crazy Heart to Oppenheimer and beyond, let film industry veteran and northern New Mexico expert Jason Strykowski guide you through the City Different to discover locations from treasured films and cultural highlights. Demons, detectives, cowboys, hippies, lawmen, and Asgardian gods have all visited Santa Fe, New Mexico. The City Different ......
This fully revised and updated edition of Peter B. Dedek's classic is a thorough dive into the history and current delights of America's Road in time for its 100th birthday! In 2026, Route 66 reached a major mile marker: it has celebrated its one-hundredth anniversary. Commissioned by the federal government as US Highway 66 in 1926, Route 66 ......
First time in paper, these essays are an extension of the author's previous books Mayordomo and A Garlic Testament. This book is like Stanley Crawford's floor. The floor began more than thirty years ago when Crawford moved his family to New Mexico after selling movie rights to his first novel. The history of their home-made house is written in the ......
The Global Reach of the World's Most Lucrative Illicit Drug
This superbly edited volume provides scholars and general readers with an in depth view of the evolution, nature, dynamics, and consequences of the global cocaine industry. Cocaine: The Global Reach of the World's Most Lucrative Illicit Drug offers an unprecedented global analysis of the cocaine trade, revealing how the world's most lucrative ......
