Beatty's Cabin
Beatty's Cabin

Author: Elliott S. Barker

Publisher: Trafford Publishing

Published: 2011-04

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 142696059X

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Beatty's Cabin journeys back to an amazing time when the Pecos high country of northern New Mexico was still wild and free. George Beatty, an old-time prospector, built his two-room log cabin on a grassy flat, beside the upper Pecos River, an area Elliott Barker grew to love. Beatty's cabin is the pivotal axis for Barker's thrilling memoir of his experiences and rugged adventures, many happy, a few tragic. He gets his first inspiring glimpse of the remote Pecos high country on the very same adventuresome trip when he first explores Beatty's old cabin and prospect holes. With the babble of the upper Pecos water and the whispers of the mountain breezes among the spruces, he begins chronicling his adventures, starting with his first wilderness pack trip in 1896 at the age of ten and continuing with the awe-inspiring glimpses of mountain meadows and rugged peaks. Elliott relates tales of grizzly bear hunts, capturing outlaws, and a perilous winter rescue of a bunch of snow-trapped horses, among others. The historical development of the Santa Fe National Forest and the Pecos Wilderness area, so dear to Barker's heart, form the foundation for this unprecedented memoir of the beauty and the glory of wild New Mexico.

Hiking to History
Hiking to History

Author: Robert Julyan

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0826356850

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Written for both outdoor enthusiasts and vicarious travelers, Hiking to History describes the historical significance behind these publicly accessible sites and includes GPS coordinates to enable readers to find each place.

The Place Names of New Mexico
The Place Names of New Mexico

Author: Robert Julyan

Publisher: UNM Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9780826316899

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The indispensable traveler's guide to the history of places throughout the Land of Enchantment.

Backpacker
Backpacker

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1978-04

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13:

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Backpacker brings the outdoors straight to the reader's doorstep, inspiring and enabling them to go more places and enjoy nature more often. The authority on active adventure, Backpacker is the world's first GPS-enabled magazine, and the only magazine whose editors personally test the hiking trails, camping gear, and survival tips they publish. Backpacker's Editors' Choice Awards, an industry honor recognizing design, feature and product innovation, has become the gold standard against which all other outdoor-industry awards are measured.

Hiking New Mexico
Hiking New Mexico

Author: Laurence Parent

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2010-10-05

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 0762766999

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Ninety-one hikes from the La Luz Trail to the San Mateo and Peloncillo Mountains.

100 Hikes in New Mexico
100 Hikes in New Mexico

Author: Craig Martin

Publisher: The Mountaineers Books

Published: 2010-02-22

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1594854076

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* Offers hikes for all fitness levels and a "Trails-at-a-Glance" feature to help select the right hike for you * Hikes for all of New Mexico in this popular guidebook New Mexico offers a surprising variety of terrain to explore through its trails, from the Chihuahuan Desert in the south to remarkable alpine lakes in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains to the north. In this guidebook to New Mexico's impressive trails, author Craig Martin includes easy 1- and 2-mile day hikes, numerous 8- to 12-mile hikes, and difficult 20-plus-mile backpacking trails for the more ardent adventurers. Interesting on-the-trail information such as the history of old mining camps, homesteads, and ghost towns is provided. Most hikes are quickly accessible from the urban centers of Santa Fe and Albuquerque.

The Battle Rages Higher
The Battle Rages Higher

Author: Kirk C. Jenkins

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2003-10-24

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 0813138159

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" The Battle Rages Higher tells, for the first time, the story of the Fifteenth Kentucky Infantry, a hard-fighting Union regiment raised largely from Louisville and the Knob Creek valley where Abraham Lincoln lived as a child. Although recruited in a slave state where Lincoln received only 0.9 percent of the 1860 presidential vote, the men of the Fifteenth Kentucky fought and died for the Union for over three years, participating in all the battles of the Atlanta campaign, as well as the battles of Perryville, Stones River and Chickamauga. Using primary research, including soldiers' letters and diaries, hundreds of contemporary newspaper reports, official army records, and postwar memoirs, Kirk C. Jenkins vividly brings the Fifteenth Kentucky Infantry to life. The book also includes an extensive biographical roster summarizing the service record of each soldier in the thousand-member unit. Kirk C. Jenkins, a descendant of the Fifteenth Kentucky's Captain Smith Bayne, is a partner in a Chicago law firm. Click here for Kirk Jenkins' website and more information about the 15th Kentucky Infantry.

Enchantment and Exploitation
Enchantment and Exploitation

Author: William deBuys

Publisher: UNM Press

Published: 2015-11-15

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 0826353436

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First published in 1985, William deBuys’s Enchantment and Exploitation has become a New Mexico classic. It offers a complete account of the relationship between society and environment in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of northern New Mexico, a region unique in its rich combination of ecological and cultural diversity. Now, more than thirty years later, this revised and expanded edition provides a long-awaited assessment of the quality of the journey that New Mexican society has traveled in that time—and continues to travel. In a new final chapter deBuys examines ongoing transformations in the mountains’ natural systems—including, most notably, developments related to wildfires—with significant implications for both the land and the people who depend on it. As the climate absorbs the effects of an industrial society, deBuys argues, we can no longer expect the environmental future to be a reiteration of the environmental past.

Fishing in New Mexico
Fishing in New Mexico

Author: Ti Piper

Publisher: UNM Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9780826311382

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New Mexico is an angler's delight. It has more than a thousand miles of fishable creeks, streams, and rivers and almost a quarter-million surface acres of lakes and reservoirs. This book is a complete guide to fishing in all of these waters. Over two hundred public, private, and Indian reservation-fishing areas are covered. From the state's two best-known fishing areas--the San Juan river and Elephant Butte Reservoir--to all of the waters associated with the state's ten drainages, this book provides detailed information for each site on location, size, depth, shoreline description, fish species, suggested angling techniques, seasonal fishing reports, road access, camping and boating facilities, and handicapped accessibility. This book is sure to become indispensable to two types of anglers: beginners, young and old, who want to take up the sport, and veterans--including newcomers to the state--who seek up-to-date information on all species of coldwater and warm water sport fish in New Mexico.