New Mexico Art Tells its History

Agriculture

Maps

• Dryland Farming (pdf)
• Irrigation Farming (pdf)

Books & Articles

"Go Nuts! Nut Production in New Mexico"
Story & Photography by Ellen Frank
New Mexico Magazine, October 2009

Websites

• New Mexico Department of Agriculture
  http://nmdaweb.nmsu.edu/
• United States Department of Agriculture
  http://www.ers.usda.gov/statefacts/nm.htm
• NetState.com
  http://www.netstate.com/economy/nm_economy.htm
• CityData.com
  http://www.city-data.com/states/New-Mexico-Agriculture.html

Other

Three Sisters
Dr. Dann Brown, Professor of Botany
Eastern New Mexico University
Copyright 2005 NMSU Board of Regents
http://horizon.nmsu.edu/kids/webquests/3sisresources.html

New Mexico Farm and Ranch Museum
http://www.nmfarmandranchmuseum.org/ 

PBS
New Perspectives on the West
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/program/

Artist Biographical Information

• Helen Blumenschein
  http://rmoa.unm.edu/docviewer.php?docId=nmsm1ac376.xml
   
• Adam Clark Vroman
  http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=1663
   
• Donald Woodman
  http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/feminist_art_base/gallery/donald_woodman.php
  http://www.donaldwoodman.com

Ranching

Maps

• Ranching and Conflicts (pdf)
• Ranching and Rangeland (pdf)

Books and Articles

Lea County New Mexico: A Pictorial History
Lynn C. Mauldin
The Donning Company Publishers, 1997 

Early days on the Texas-New Mexico Plains
Bill Arp Oden
Palo Duro Press, 1965

Love, Death, and the Plains: Historical Narratives of Lea County
Peter Mladinic and Joe Byers, Editors
Lea County Museum Press, 2007

“Cattle Industry of New Mexico” by James I Culbert
Economic Geography, Vol 17, No. 2 (April 1941) pp. 155 – 168.
Published by Clark University.
JSTOR: http://www.jstor.org/stable/141144

Web Sites

The Bill Lane Center for the American West
http://west.stanford.edu/
http://exploringthewest.stanford.edu/

Other

Lea County Western Heritage Museum
New Mexico Junior College
Hobbs, New Mexico
http://www.museumshobbsnm.org/

Lea County Museum
103 South Love
Lovington, New Mexico
http://www.leacountymuseum.org/

New Mexico Farm and Ranch Museum
Las Cruces, New Mexico
http://www.nmfarmandranchmuseum.org/

PBS
New Perspectives on the West
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/program/

Artist Biographical Information

• Theodore Van Soelen
  http://www.matteucci.com/artists/theodore-van-soelen/?view=bio
  http://www.theodorevansoelen.com/
• Meridel Rubenstein
  http://www.meridelrubenstein.com/
  http://www.lewallencontemporary.com/bio.php?artistId=1041
• Charles Russell
  http://www.cmrussell.org/meet
• Lloyd Goff
  http://fineart.ha.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=649&Lot_No=36311
• Gisella Loeffler
  http://www.owingsgallery.com/artists/
• Barbara Van Cleve
  http://www.barbaravancleve.com
  http://www.andrewsmithgallery.com/exhibitions/barbaravancleve/bvcinfo.htm
• John Collier, Jr.
  http://americanimage.unm.edu/biography.html

 

Mining

Maps

• Mining and Stagecoaching (pdf)
• Mineral Mining (pdf)
• Oil and Gas Production (pdf)
• Coal Production (pdf)

Books

Memories Come to Us in the Rain and the Wind: Oral Histories and Photographs of Navajo Uranium Miners and Their Families
Doug Brugge, Director
Navajo Uranium Miner Oral History and Photography Project, 1997

Web Sites

• Canyons, cultures and environmental change: An introduction to the land-use history of the Colorado Plateau
  • John D. Grahame and Thomas D. Sisk, Editors
    Northern Arizona University, 2002
    http://.cpluhna.nau.edu/
  • "Leetso," the Yellow Monster: 
Uranium Mining on the Colorado Plateau
    MaryLynn Quartaroli
    http://cpluhna.nau.edu./Change/uranium.htm
     
• Los Alamos National Laboratories
  http://www.lanl.gov
   
• Sandia National Laboratories
  http://www.sandia.gov
   
• New Mexico Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources
  http://www.geoinfo.nmt.edu
   
• Four Corners Power Plant
  http://www.pnm.com/systems/4c.htm
   
• New Mexico Oil & Gas Association
  http://www.nmoga.org
   
• New Mexico Mining Association
  http://www.nmmining.org/Pages/education_foundation/sub_pages/nm_minerals_and_uses.html
  
• Cerrillos Hills State Park
  http://www.cerrilloshills.org/mines/mining_documents.html
   
• Western Mining History
  http://www.westernmininghistory.com/articles/163/page1/
   
• PBS
  New Perspectives on the West
  http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/program/

Artist Biographical Information

• Russell Lee
  http://alkek.library.txstate.edu/swwc/wg/exhibits/rlee/bio.html
  http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utcah/00123/cah-00123.html
   
• Todd Webb
  http://www.leegallery.com/webb.html
   

 

Tourism

Maps

• Healthseeker Era, 1880-1940 (pdf)
• Public Lands and Facilities (pdf)

Web Sites

New Mexico Tourism Department
http://www.newmexico.org/

New Mexico and the American West

• PBS (Public Broadcasting Service)
  New Perspectives on the West
  http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/program/
• The National Parks: America’s Best Idea
  http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/
• Tourism Association of New Mexico
  www.tanm.org/
  
• The US 50
  http://www.theus50.com/newmexico/information.php
• The Road Wanderer
  http://www.theroadwanderer.net/66NMex/route66NM.htm

Aztec Ruins

• Aztec Ruins National Monument
  http://www.nps.gov/azru/historyculture/index.htm
  http://www.nps.gov/azru/naturescience/index.htm

Bandelier

• National Park Service Bandelier National Monument
  http://www.nps.gov/band/historyculture/index.htm

Bosque del Apache

• US Fish and Wildlife Service
  Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge
  http://www.fws.gov/refuges/profiles/index.cfm?id=22520
• Desert USA
  http://www.desertusa.com/mag00/nov/stories/bosque.html

Carlsbad Caverns

• National Park Service
  Carlsbad Caverns National Park
  http://www.nps.gov/cave/historyculture/upload/history_site_bulletin.pdf

Chaco Canyon

• National Park Service
  Chaco Culture, National Historic Park
  http://www.nps.gov/archive/chcu/excavate.htm

Coronado Historic Site

• New Mexico Historic Sites
  www.nmmonuments.org/coronado

Gila Cliff Dwellings

• National Park Service
  Gila Cliff Dwellings
  http://www.nps.gov/archive/gicl/adhi/adhi.htm
• Desert USA
  http://www.desertusa.com/gila/gila.html

White Sands

• National Park Service
  White Sands National Monument
  http://www.nps.gov/whsa/index.htm

Hopewell Mounds

• Web Chronology Project
  http://www.thenagain.info/WebChron/NorthAmerica/Hopewell.html

• Cabrillo College
  http://www.cabrillo.edu/~crsmith/hopewell.html#exchange

Albuquerque

• Albuquerque Convention and Visitor’s Bureau
  http://www.itsatrip.org/albuquerque/history/default.aspx
  http://www.itsatrip.org/albuquerque/history/timeline/default.aspx

Clovis

• Clovis Chamber of Commerce
  http://www.clovisnm.org/
   
• Blackwater Draw Museum
  Eastern New Mexico University
  http://www.enmu.edu/services/museums/blackwater-draw/index.shtml

Las Cruces

• Las Cruces Convention and Visitor’s Bureau
  www.lascrucescvb.org/

Las Vegas

• Southwest Aviator
  http://www.swaviator.com/html/issueMA04/lasvegasnm.html#Anchor-927
• New York Times
  http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/16/travel/escapes/16american.html

Raton

• City of Raton
  http://www.ratonnm.gov/

Roswell

• New Mexico Tourism Department
  www.newmexico.org/city/roswell/
• International UFO Museum and Research Center
  http://www.roswellufomuseum.com
   Roswell Museum and Art Center
  http://roswellmuseum.org/

Santa Fe

• Santa Fe Convention and Tourist Bureau
  http://santafe.org/
  Santa Fe Info
  http://www.santafenm.info/
• Eight Northern Pueblos
  http://santafe.org/Visiting_Santa_Fe/Things_to_Do/Indian_Pueblos/Eight_Northern_Indian_Pueblos/index.html
  http://www.santafenm.info/pueblos.htm

Taos

• Taos County Historical Society
  taoscountyhistoricalsociety.org/

Art and Artists

• Zaplin Lampert Gallery
  www.zaplinlampert.com/view-a-list-of-all-artists.html

Books

New Mexico Art Through Time: Prehistory to the Present
Joseph Traugott
Museum of New Mexico Press, Santa Fe, 2012

Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire That Civilized the Wild West
Stephen Fried
Bantam, 2010

A Sand County Almanac
Aldo Leopold
Ballantine Books, 1990

The Delight Makers
Adolf F. A. Bandelier
General Books, 2010

DVDs

The National Parks: America’s Best Idea - Ken Burns
PBS
http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/

Science and Techonology

Web Sites

• The National Center for Genome Resources
  http://www.ncgr.org
   
• Los Alamos National Laboratory
  http://www.lanl.org
   
• Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute
  http://www.lrri.org
   
• University of New Mexico
  http://www.unm.edu
   
• Sandia National Laboratory
  http://www.sandia.gov
   
• Santa Fe Institute
  http://www.santafe.edu
   
• Biomedical Research Institute of New Mexico
  http://www.brinm.org
   
• Behavioral Health Research Center of the Southwest
  http://www.bhrcs.org
   
• New Mexico Wind
 and Energy Center
  www.pnm.com/systems/nmwec.htm
   
• Area Development on Line
  www.areadevelopment.com/stateResources/newMexico/Newmexico-state-report-authority.html

 

The Movies

Books & Articles

"Economic Impact"
Los Angeles Times, July 20, 2009
Story by Kate Linthicum

“Nuts and Bolts of Hollywood”
Los Angeles Times, April 2, 2007
Story by Richard Verrier

Web Sites

• Film New Mexico
  http://www.nmfilm.com
   
• A Pueblo Legend
  D. W. Griffith 1912
  http://www.nmfilm.com/filming/filmography/filmography-item.php?id=600

Other

Indian Day School
Thomas Edison 1898 movie still
newmexicohistory.org/photos/first-movie-filmed-in-new-mexico-1898
 

Astronomy and Space

Web Sites

• New Mexico Museum of Space History
  www.nmspacemuseum.org

• New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
  http://www.nmnaturalhistory.org/

• Chaco Canyon
  http://www.exploratorium.edu/chaco/

• Very Large Array
  http://www.vla.nrao.edu/

• Apache Point Observatory
  http://www.apo.nmsu.edu/

• Sloan Digital Sky Survey
  http://www.sdss.org/

• "Earth’s Space Caves"
  Article by Sue Vorenberg – posted Sunday, September 28, 2008
  www.santafenewmexican.com/SantaFeNorthernNM/092708CAVESTORY

• New Mexico Observatories
  www.astronomyclubs.com/5/190/33/0/club.aspx

• Roswell
  • City of Roswell
    www.roswellmysteries.com
  • UFO Museum and Research Center
    www.roswellufomuseum.com
  • Roswell UFO Festival
    www.UFOfestivalRoswell.com
• Alamogordo
  • New Mexico Museum of Space History
    www.nmspacemuseum.org
  • White Sands
    http://www.nps.gov/whsa/
  • City of Alamogordo
    www.alamogordo.com/tourism.htm
• Las Cruces
  • Spaceport America
    http://www.spaceportAmerica.com
    http://www.spaceportamerica.com/about-us/history.html
  • Virgin Galactic
    http://www.virgingalactic.com/overview/