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El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro
Volume II
Cultural Resources Series No. 13
Bureau of Land Management, New Mexico State Office
Santa Fe, 1999
Volume II of El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro is now available. This anthology was over four years in the making. This volume contains historical papers by twenty-four scholars concerning the history of New Mexico and represents a collection of the most current research into New Mexico history, particularly as it related to El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro.
The anthology contains twenty-four essays and is richly illustrated with 132 photographs and pictures. In all, this volume consists of 345 pages. A detailed table of contents is provided below. The book is published by the Bureau of Land Management, New Mexico State Office, Santa Fe, and is being distributed to universities, research firms, and public libraries. About 1,500 copies will be sold at facilities of the Public Lands Information Association (PLIA) which administers bookstores at the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) offices in New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado. Contact the BLM book stores in these three states for information on purchasing Volume II of El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro. For New Mexico, the web address for the BLM is:
www.nm.blm.gov, although specific information about their publications is not listed.
Table of Contents for
El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro
Volume II
Stephen L. Fosberg: Forward
Gabrielle Palmer: Preface
Frances Levine: "What is the Significance of a Road?"
Michael P. Marshal: "Journal of a Reconnaissance"
Dan Scurlock: "Flood, Fords, and Shifting Sands"
José Antonio Esquibel: "Mexico City to Santa Fe: Spanish Pioneers on El Camino Real, 1693-1694"
Donna Pierce and Cordelia Thomas Snow: " 'A Harp for Playing' "
Elizabeth Cunningham and Skip Miller: "Trade Fairs in Taos"
David M. Brugge: " Captives and Slaves on the Camino Real"
Robert J. Torrez: "Governor Allende's Instruction for Conducting Caravans"
Keith Bakker: "New Mexico Spanish Colonial Furniture"
Mark Winter: "Saltillo Sarapes"
David V. Hill and John A. Peterson: "East Meets West on the Camino Real"
Patricia Fournier: "Ceramic Products and Trade on the Camino Real"
James E. Ivey: "Ultimo Poblado del Mundo (The Last Place on Earth)"
Donna Pierce: "Heaven on Earth: Church Furnishings"
Rick Hendricks: "El Paso del Norte"
Robin Farwell Gavin: "Santeros of the Ría Abajo and the Camino Real"
Dan Scurlock: The Camino Real at Cerro and Plaza Tomé"
Mary Jean Cook: "Gertridis Barceló"
Mark L. Gardner: "The Mexican War and the Chihuahua Trail"
Mary D. Taylor: "Cura de la Frontera, Ramón Ortiz"
Mark L. Gardner: "The Case of Manuel X. Harmony"
J. Paul Taylor y Romero: "La Caravana"
Stephen L. Fosberg: "El Camino Real International Heritage Center"
Lawrence Beal: "El Camino Real National Historical Trail"
Oakah L. Jones: Epilogue
Additional Background on Vol. II of 'El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro