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A little advance reading can add a lot to your understanding and appreciation of what you will see on your trip. Although I suspect not many Philmont trekers do much reading before the trip, you might encourage your Scourts to read at least one New Mexico related book before the trip. The Tony Hillerman and Willa Cather books are probably the easiest reads. You might buy a couple copies of each and pass them around in the months prior to your trip. For your tour planner, I would particularly recommend the Coggan Family Adventure Guide a short book to help with your planning and give you an idea of what to expect at the various potential touring stops throughout New Mexico. Here are some reading possibilities for adults and Scouts. Adolf F. Bandelier. The Delight Makers: A novel of prehistoric Pueblo Indians, New York: Harcourt Brace, 1971. Cynthia Bix. New Mexico: Art of the State. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Publishers, 1998. Small book gives an overview of New Mexico Art. George Douglas Brewerton. Overland with Kit Carson: A narrative of the Old Spanish Trail in '48, Lincoln NB: University of Nebraska Press, 1993. First hand story of an early trip from Los Angeles to Independence, Missouri through New Mexico. Howard Bryan. Wildest of the Wild West: True Tales of a Frontier Town on the Santa Fe Trail. Santa Fe: Clear Light Publishers, 1988. Stories of Las Vegas NM. Kit Carson's Own Story of His Life, Taos: Kit Carson Memorial Foundation. As dictated to his friend Col. D.C. Peters (Kit couldn't write), 1926. Willa Cather. Death Comes for the Archbishop, Vintage Books, 1927. A novel that gives the flavor of Spanish Colonial New Mexico. Catherine Coggan, New Mexico Family Adventure Guide, Old Saybrook CT: Globe Pequot Press, 1997. Things to see and do in New Mexico for the entire family. In places written with younger kids in mind, but good for Scouts as well. Stanley Crawford, Mayor Domo: Chronicle of an Accquia in Northern New Mexico Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1988. Award winning account of the author's experience as boss of an irrigation ditch in a small rural community. R.L. Duffus. The Santa Fe Trail, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1972. Standard lively history of the Santa Fe Trail, originally published in 1930. William W. Dunmire and Gail D. Tierney, Wild Plants of the Pueblo Province: Exploring Ancient and Enduring Uses, Santa Fe, Museum of New Mexico Press, 1995. Color pictures of plants of Northern New Mexico and discussion of their uses by native Puebloans. Focuses on the Bandlier/Los Alamos area, but most plants are in the Philmont area as well. Francis L. and Roberta B. Fugate. Roadside History of New Mexico, Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing, 1989. Organized by location, convenient for reading on the road and learning the history of a locale as you pass by. Harriet Freiberger. Lucian Maxwell: Villian or Visionary Santa Fe: Sunstone Press, 1999. Focuses on a key character in the local history of the Philmont area. Tony Hillerman. The Great Taos Bank Robbery and other Indian Country Affairs, New York: Harper, 1973. A collection of nonfiction stories about New Mexico by the best selling southwest mystery writer. Paul Horgan. The Centuries of Santa Fe. New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1956. Readable history of Santa Fe presented from the viewpoint of selected historical figures. Paul Horgan.Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History. Texas Monthly Press, Fourth Edition, 1984. Comprehensive Pulitzer Prize winning history of the Rio Grande Valley. The Milagro Beanfield War. Videocassette. Dir. Robert Redford, 1988. 117 min. With Ruben Blades, Melanie Griffith, Freddy Fender, and others. Small-time northern New Mexico farmer fights a land development company for water rights. Great scenery and music. Based on novel by John Nichols. Arnold Skolnick ed. Paintings of the Southwest. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994. Artwork mostly by major New Mexico painters. Sherry Clayton Taggett and Ted Schwartz. Paintbrushes and Pistols: How Taos Artists Sold the West. Santa Fe: John Muir Publications, 1990. Stephen Trimble. Talking with the Clay: The Art of Pueblo Pottery. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, 1993. David Weber. The Taos Trappers: The Fur Trade in the Far Southwest 1540-1846. University of Oklahoma Press, 1971. Robert White et al. The New Mexico Painters, Santa Fe: Gerald Peters Gallery,1999. Illustrated with biographical information on some important Santa Fe and Taos painters. |