Books

Hotevilla

By Thomas E Mails and Chief Dan Evehema.

Hotevilla - Is it possible, even logical, that an endangered species withouit Federal protection - five elderly native people, supported by perhaps fifteen younger men and women, living the simplest of lives in a remote village in Northern Arizona - hold in their hands the fate of Americas, and perhaps even the entire world? For that, based upon astonishing prophecies they received nearly a thousand years ago, is what they claim. And they say their village, Hotevilla, is a shrine -the Shrine of the Covenat - and a microcosm of the world.

A book telling the history of the tradition Hopi people of the village of Hotevilla Arozona. Including general events, and especialy the prophecy to them in ancient times.

570 Pages

Price: £15.00

Enduring Culture

Enduring Culture - A Century Of Photography Of The Southwest Indians
By M.K.Keegan & Frontier Photographers

By contrasting photographs of Southwestern Indians taken at the turn opf the century with recent pictures of the same peoples, this book offers a portrait of an enduring Native American Culture.

" The photographs are some of the best that have ever been taken of the American Indian". - N.Scott Momaday

120 Pages.

£19.00

Traildust

Traildust - Cowboys, Cattle and Country.

In the image of the high plains drifter there is embodied the most elemental spirit of the American character. And few have captured the essence of the relationship between the cowboy and the place that is the West as artist James Reynolds. His canvases are perhaps some of the most passionate and stirring ever to portray this mythical figure.

155 Pages of Stunning Paintings

£19.00

Argillite
Argillite - The Art Of The Haida

By Douglas Wilson and Leslie Drew

The art of the Haida comes to life as the authors explore its origins, its history, its symbolism. Walk the forbidden trail to the secret quarry, stand beside the artist as he seeks the intrinsic carving waiting to be released from the rock, study the relationship of each piece to the changing social environment.

313 Pages.

£15.00

Elfedo Baca

The Incredible Elfego Baca

By Howard Bryan

Elfego Baca (February 10, 1865 – August 27, 1945) was a gunman, lawman, lawyer, and politician in the closing days of the American wild west. Baca was born in Socorro, New Mexico just before the end of the American Civil War to Francisco and Juana Maria Baca. His family moved to Topeka, Kansas when he was a young child. Upon his mother’s death in 1880, Baca returned with his father to Belen, New Mexico where his father became a marshal.
In 1884, at age 19, Baca stole some guns, bought a mail-order sheriff’s badge, and more or less appointed himself deputy sheriff in Socorro County, New Mexico.
His goal in life was to be a peace officer. He wanted, he said, “the outlaws to hear my steps a block away.” Southwestern New Mexico at the time was still relatively sparsely settled cattle ranching country. Cowboys roamed the land and did as they pleased. They might come into a town, drink at the saloon, harass the locals, and then shoot up the town out of boredom. Baca meant to put an end to that.

103 Pages
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£7.50

Long John Dunn Of Taos

Long John Dunn Of Taos

From Texas Outlaw to New Mexico Hero.

By Max Evans

Long John Dunn of Taos, New Mexico (cattleman, jailbird, gambler, stagecoach driver, miner, saloon-keeper, and entrepreneur) was one of the American West's most legendary characters. Before Dunn's death, the Taos old-timer told Max Evans the story of his long and adventurous life and his recollections of the last days of the pioneer era. Long John Dunn of Taos: From Texas Outlaw to New Mexico Hero is one of those true life men of the old west from which movies were made - or ought to be! --

£7.50