Publisher's Synopsis
This book was conceived and written to answer the often heard question: Is there an up-to-date history of New Mexico -- one I can give to someone as a gift or read myself? This book is the best single-volume presentation of the fascinating succession of events and characters that make up New Mexico's past. This is regional history at its best: thorough, readable, well illustrated and sure to inform and delight. This book surveys the entire history of the land and its peoples, beginning with prehistoric times and ending with the present day. The authors examine the three main periods of New Mexico history -- the Spanish, the Mexican and the Anglo-American -- and recreate what it meant to live and work in each of the eras. Here too, are many of the legendary figures of New Mexican history -- the men and women whose courage, foresight or notoriety is indelibly etched in the state's past.
