Greetings to all from the Black Range Museum Bookshelf!
By Kathleen Blair
In our Gift Shop at the Black Range Museum 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, and a few southwestern classics and fiction, just for a good, thoughtful read!
In these periodic notes, I will try to keep visitors abreast as new tiles are acquired and favorites revisited. 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.
This Month's Highlighted Titles:
Villista Prisoners of 1916-1917. Hurst, J.W. 2000. When Pancho Villa and 484 men raided Columbus, New Mexico in 1916, Black Jack Pershing was sent after them in a Punative Raid. The reasons for the raid have been long debated and the fates of those captured has been obscure, though many were executed or sent to the State Penitentiary in Santa Fe, this book brings their stories back into history.
Sierra County. Carpenter, C. and S. Fletcher. 2018. A concise history of Sierra County, New Mexico from the Native Americans, its political origins in 1884 (With Hillsboro the first county seat) with the focus on mining and ranching, On through the changes of the 1940s with the development of Truth or Consequences, Elephant Butte and Caballo damsites, the Carrie Tingly Hospital, and the New Mexico State Vetertans Home. Lots of photos and iteresting details!
Rock Art Symbols of the Greater Southwest. Patterson A. 1992. The southwest is amazing for its diversity and concentration of rock art. This extensively researched book is a well organized and well illustrated compilation of rock art sites and interpretations. Great to have as you visit, hike, and explore throughout the southwest.
Camping New Mexico. Crow, M. 2015. Latest eddition of the Falcon Guide to public tening and RV campgrounds in our state. Gives good details as to maps, driving directions and GPS, facilities at each of the sites, fees, recreations oportunities in the area and tips.
Hunting Grizzlys, Black Bear and Lions “Big-Time” on the Old Ranches. Evans, W. F. 1950. Tales of big game hunts in the Davis Mountians of west Texas and the Gila region of the New Mexico. Memoirs of the Evans family between 1880 to 1920s including the only account known of the grizzly bear in Texas.
