The land and its early people --
The Spanish explorers --
Early Spanish settlement, 1598-1680 --
New Mexico under Spanish rule, 1692-1821 --
Life in New Mexico's Spanish communities --
New Mexico under Mexican rule --
Troubled days in territorial New Mexico --
The end of isolation --
Politics and prosperity, 1910-1929 --
New Mexico since 1929 --
Selected bibliography.

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. New Mexico 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. - Back cover.

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