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New Mexico A Guide To The Colorful State
Author: Joseph Miller

NEW MEXICO A GUIDE TO THE COLORFUL STATE Compiled by Workers of the Writers Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of New Mexico NEW AND COMPLETELY REVISED EDITION BY JOSEPH MILLER EDITED BY HENRY G. ALSBERG AMERICAN GUIDE SERIES ILLUSTRATED Sponsored by the University of New Mexico HASTINGS HOUSE Publishers NEW YORK MCMLXII Fo... more »reword New Mexico today represents a blend of three cultures Indian, Spanish, and Anglo-American. The Indian, in his pueblo, still carries on the religious ceremonies of his ancestors, while in the village nearby the descendants of the Spanish and Mexican conquerors swirl rhythmically to the strains of folk songs long since brought from old Spain and Mexico. To the beat of the Indian tom-tom and the gay rhythms of the Spanish dance, there is added the roar of the air transport and the sweep of the transcontinental stream lined train. This is New Mexico today a people united under one sovereignty, but representing a background of four centuries under Indian, Spanish, Mexican, and American cultures. Four hundred years have produced the modern New Mexico. The growth of its civilization began in the memorable year of 1540 when Vasquez de Coronado entered the northern borderlands seeking fabled treasure. He brought with him the first cattle, sheep, and swine to enter what was to be the great cattle country of the United States. Now the gold sought by the conquistador es is being won from the earth in oil and coal and copper or comes from its surface directly through agricultural endeavor or indirectly through that romantic employment of the West, the cattle industry. Coronado founded no permanent European settlements, but his followers now visit a land of enchantment. The ancient cities of Santa Fe, Taos, and Acoma fabled as a sky city before Coronado came, the historic shrines of Inscription Rock and Old Mesilla, the scenic wonders of Carlsbad Caverns and the White Sands these lie in a fairyland of high mountains, swift streams, broad mesas, and brilliant sky. In it there stretch long miles of perfect hard-topped highway, there grow great forests of pine, cool and in viting to camper or fisherman. The Navaho tend their flocks by day and dance to the weird Mountain Chant by night. That you may find and follow these roads, that you may see how life was lived in this sun-baked land before the first Pilgrim braved the cold winters of New England, that you may compare for yourself the cultures of Indian, Spaniard, or Anglo-American or may see them fused into one pleasant pattern of living, this Guide to New Mexico is offered. Here in New Mexico, time becomes visible. Your own eyes bring you the story. v VI FOREWORD This volume, sponsored jointly by the University of New Mexico and the Coronado Cuarto Centennial Commission, tells, and tempts you to look. CLINTON P. ANDERSON Managing Director United States Coronado Exposition Commission FOREWORD TO THE COMPLETELY REVISED EDITION New Mexico has enjoyed phenomenal growth, and has changed greatly in many of its phases since this volume was last revised in 1953. While many of the towns have remained practically as they were, the explosive de velopment of the uranium, oil, and natural gas fields together with vast missile and allied programs, has brought about a shift in the population to these accelerated areas. The numerous reclamation projects already com pleted and in operation, have advanced the States agricultural position, and the huge Navajo Dam, now under construction near Farmington, when completed will bring additional economic benefits to New Mexico...

ISBN-13: 9781406740820
ISBN-10: 1406740829
Publication Date: 3/15/2007
Pages: 588
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Publisher: Fork. Press
Book Type: Paperback
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