HHS Black Range Museum Bookstore ~ By Kathleen Blair.
Greetings to all from the Black Range Museum Bookshelf! In our Gift Shop we carry about 100 titles to offer for an interesting selection to feed your curiosity. We emphasize books relevant to the Hillsboro Historical Society’s mission statement and topics developed in our museum displays. Local authors are also featured. We have many titles on the people and events that have impacted our region of the southwest including Native Americans, mining, ranching, local community development, significant places, and historical events, as well as natural history. We also keep books on more current activities such as hiking and camping, field guides, a children’s section, our giftshop artist skills, and a few southwestern classics and fiction just for a good, thoughtful read! In these periodic notes, I will try to keep abreast as new tiles are acquired and favorites revisited. Remember, with your membership you receive our Quarterly Journal filled with interesting articles as well. Just a note – in order to keep prices down and books out of landfills, many of the books we offer are used, though still in good condition.
For today we are focusing on our new, developing Medicinal Exhibits Room. From the Warm Springs Apache, to the curanderos, to modern doctors, this area has always been a focus for the medicinal arts. Here are our newest titles!
Medicine Women, Curanderas, and Women Doctors. 1989. B. Perrone, H.H. Stockel, and V. Krueger. Stories and voices of 10 women healers come together in this volume to present different pathways of human medicinal and healing skills from traditional to modern. Winner of the 1990 New Mexico Zia Award.
Chasing the Cure in New Mexico: Tuberculosis and the Quest for Health. 2016. Lewis, N. O. This book is a comprehensive story of the sanitariums which developed in response to the global tuberculosis epidemic of the early turn of the century driven by essentially, climate refugees, seeking the high, dry deserts in hope of survival. This was significant factor in the development of New Mexico and directly influenced our local area with multiple medical Doctors practicing.
Home Remedies from the Country Doctor. 1999. J. Heinrichs and D. B. Heinrichs. From the editors of Yankee Magazine, for everything from your tongue stuck on frozen metal to arthritis, this compilation of home remedies, first aid and herbal advice is great to have on your shelf!
Medicinal Plants of the Desert and Canyon West. 1989. Michael Moore. This small, well-illustrated volume is a classic guide to locating, identifying, preparing, and using many plants native to the desert southwest.