New Mexico past and future
By: Thomas E. Chavez.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: New Mexico -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-200) and index.
Table of contents: value: Early inhabitants : Clovis and Folsom people; value: A large sedentary world : the Hohokam, Mogollon, and Anasazi peoples; value: New world/new people : early European exploration; value: An island in the wilderness : New Mexico settled; value: Rebellion and resettlement; value: The day of the wedding : Mexican independence and the beginning of a new identity; value: Manifest destiny and neo-Aztecism : Horatio Alger meets Paco; value: A new age : territorial New Mexico; value: Statehood : the legacy continues; value: Epilogue : the virgin and the dynamo : cultures, technology, and survival : New Mexico's message of enchantment.