New Mexico Mavericks

by Simmons, Marc

• ISBN13: 9780865345003
• ISBN10: 0865345007
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-12-30
• Publisher: Sunstone Pr

Table of Contents

Foreword	9	(4)
When Spain Ruled	13	(30)
An Expedition of Lost Scoundrels	15	(4)
Our Conquistador Poet	19	(4)
The Well-Traveled Fray Alonso	23	(4)
Governor Lopez and the Inquisition	27	(4)
The Death of Governor Diego de Vargas	31	(4)
Governor Anza's Mercy Errand, 1780	35	(4)
Don Pedro Buys a Carriage	39	(4)
Under the Mexican Flag	43	(24)
A Duel Below the Mountains	45	(6)
The Greens of Bent's Fort	51	(4)
An Early Glimpse of Santa Fe	55	(4)
An Irish Artist Paints the Governor	59	(4)
Incident at Los Valles	63	(4)
Fighting Indians	67	(32)
Chief Ecueracapa	69	(4)
An Incident in Kiowa History	73	(4)
Encounter With The Navajo	77	(4)
Quanah---A Celebrated Indian	81	(4)
Death of Cadete	85	(4)
Battle at Monica Spring	89	(4)
The Strange J.C. Brock	93	(6)
The Soldiers' View	99	(30)
An Army Problem	101	(4)
Major Wynkoop Recalls	105	(4)
Soldiering in Southern New Mexico	109	(4)
The Death of Captain Stanton	113	(4)
When ``Mary Ann'' Saved The Day	117	(4)
An Artist In Santa Fe, 1865	121	(4)
Captain Bourke and the Snake Dances	125	(4)
Men of Standing	129	(34)
A Texan Judge in New Mexico	131	(4)
Hang the Bishop!	135	(4)
Governor Abeytia's Debt	139	(4)
Senator Doolittle Tours New Mexico	143	(4)
Strange Mr. Maxwell	147	(4)
A German in New Mexico	151	(4)
Doctoring in Bernalillo	155	(4)
The Strange End Of ``King Saul''	159	(4)
Forever, Cowboy	163	(26)
Cowboys of the Llano	165	(4)
A Greenhorn Makes the Grade	169	(4)
A Teenager's Rite of Passage	173	(4)
Those Cowboys With Ropes	177	(4)
McJunkin Finds Some Bones	181	(4)
The Cowboy Detective	185	(4)
Itinerant Writers	189	(22)
``Go West, Young Man''	191	(4)
A Remarkable Newspaperman	195	(4)
Ambling in the Southwest	199	(4)
A Journalist's Visit to Santa Fe, 1875	203	(4)
A Bostonian's Prejudiced View of New Mexico	207	(4)
Women of Gumption	211	(34)
Mystery of the Blue Lady	213	(4)
Mrs. Villalpando's Last Stand	217	(4)
Susan Wallace Writes A Book	221	(4)
The Indomitable Mrs. Stevenson	225	(4)
The Remarkable Sadie	229	(4)
Rachel Plummer's Captivity	233	(4)
``Steamboat'' at Otero	237	(4)
Fleeing From Geronimo	241	(4)
Through Children's Eyes	245
Growing Up In New Mexico	247
Kit's Son Goes To College	251
A Boy's View Of Life In The Mines	255
Billy's Boyhood	259