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Reading Guide for New Mexico History in 10 Minutes: Territorial New Mexico

Episodes 60, 61, 62, & 65

Episode 60 - The Railroad Arrives and Changes New Mexico Forever

Episode 61 - The Santa Fe Ring Comes to New Mexico

Episode 62 - Las Gorras Blancas of San Miguel County, New Mexico

Episode 65 - Dangerous New Mexico in the Wild West, Blackdom, and New Mexico Taking Shape

Reading List

Santa Fe 1880: Chronicles from the Year of the Railroad by Allen R. Steele
Call Number: SW 978.95604 S8141 2019
ISBN: 9781467141949
Publication Date: 2019-04-15
The Railroad and the Pueblo Indians: The Impact of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe on the Pueblos of the Rio Grande, 1880-1930 by Richard H. Frost
Call Number: SW 978.9004974 F9395R 2016
ISBN: 9781607814405
Publication Date: 2015-01-15
New Mexico's Railroads: A Historical Survey by David F. Myrick
Call Number: SW 385.09789 M998 1990
ISBN: 9780826311856
Publication Date: 1990-07-01
Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad by Gordon H. Chang
Call Number: SW 331.6251097809034 C45642 2019
ISBN: 9781328618573
Publication Date: 2019-05-07
Chasing the Cure in New Mexico: Tuberculosis and the Quest for Health by Nancy Owen Lewis
Call Number: SW 362.196995009789 L5878 2016 C. 1
ISBN: 9780890136126
Publication Date: 2016-05-01
The Fabulous Frontier, 1846-1912 by William A. Keleher
Call Number: SW 978.904 K29F 2008
ISBN: 9780865346208
Publication Date: 2008-03-01
Chasing the Santa Fe Ring: Power and Privilege in Territorial New Mexico by David L. Caffey
Call Number: SW 978.904 C129C 2014
ISBN: 9780826354426
Publication Date: 2014-03-15
James Silas Calhoun: First Governor of New Mexico Territory and First Indian Agent by Sherry Robinson
Call Number: SW 978.904092 J291 2021
ISBN: 9780826363053
Publication Date: 2021-12-01
Frank Springer and New Mexico: From the Colfax County War to the Emergence of modern Santa Fe by David L. Caffey
Call Number: SW 978.922 C1294 2006
ISBN: 9781585444649
Publication Date: 2006-02-21
The Lincoln County War: A Documentary History by Frederick Nolan
Call Number: SW 978.964 N787
ISBN: 9780806123776
Publication Date: 1992-02-01
Blackwater Draw: Three lives, Billy the Kid, and the Murders that Started the Lincoln County War by David S. Turk
Call Number: SW 978.964 T9391B 2011
ISBN: 9780865347809
Publication Date: 2011-02-01
Violence in Lincoln County, 1869-1881 by William A. Keleher
Call Number: SW 978.964 K29V 1982
ISBN: 9780826306166
Publication Date: 1982-05-01
The First Migrants: How Black Homesteaders' Quest for Land and Freedom Heralded America's Great Migration by Richard Edwards; Jacob K. Friefeld; Angela Bates (Preface by)
Call Number: SW 978.020896073 E2674 2023
ISBN: 9781496230843
Publication Date: 2023-08-01