tradicion revista fall 2012 - LPD Press & Rio Grande Books

Out of the Shadows
FINALIST, 2012 NM Book Awards
The Women of Southern New Mexico
edited by Martha Shipman Andrews
218 pages; 6 x 9 pb ISBN 978-1-890689-82-7 $17.95
The Wild West of New Mexico, with Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, Geronimo, and the U.
S. Cavalry center stage, is so powerful and entertaining a myth in the popular imagination
that the lives and contributions of New Mexico’s women — especially those of
Southern New Mexico — have been largely overlooked.
Visual images provide a particularly evocative means of examining the dark spaces
behind the overshadowing Western myths so dominated by the concerns and exploits
of men. The extensive photograph collections of the Rio Grande Historical Collections
and the Hobson-Huntsinger University Archives of the New Mexico State University
Library’s Archives and Special Collections Department give witness to the experiences
of women as they helped to settle the mountains and deserts of New Mexico
between 1880 and 1920. Photographs from these collections capture the unexpected:
the self-reliance of women ranchers, the craftsmanship and industry of Native American
women, the comfortable lives of a prominent Hispanic mercantile family, and the
opportunities for women created by educational institutions. The accompanying essays
by noted scholars and archivists have found the lives of women in southern New
Mexico to be not full of endless toil and deprivation but rather, in the words of young
Mildred Barnes from the mining community of Lake Valley, “delightful, exciting, and
filled with a sense of abundance.”
ABOUT THE EDITOR
Martha Shipman Andrews is University Archivist and associate professor at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces.
She is current editor of the Southern New Mexico Historical Review. She edited The Whole Damned World: New
Mexico Aggies at War: 1941-1945, recipient of two 2009 New Mexico Book Awards and the Centennial Award as one
of the “100 Best Books of New Mexico.”
CONTENTS
Introduction by Rick Hendricks
Home-Making In The Sacramento Mountains: The Photographs Of G.E. Miller And The Blazer Collection by Margaret
D. Jacobs
Women’s Lives Once Lived: The Amadors of Las Cruces by Terry R. Reynolds
Bygone Days on the Black Range by Linda G. Harris
The Mescalero Basketmakers by Joan M. Jensen
“That’s My Mountain!” Agnes Morley Cleaveland by Darlis A. Miller
“It’s not the work that bothers me, but it’s the chores:” Women on ranches, through primary sources by Charles Stanford
and Maura Kenny
Educating the Useful Woman by Martha Shipman Andrews
Sisters of Loretto by Wendy C. Simpson
Southern New Mexico Women’s Clubs by Charles Stanford
New Mexico Women In Writing: A Guide to the Circulating Collection at NMSU Library by Mardi Mahaffy
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