Author : Howard Bryan
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 20,65 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826337825
An informative and entertaining history of "The Duke City" and its inhabitants by a longtime New Mexico reporter.
Author : Scott Phillips
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 38,37 MB
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1641291109
A hardboiled valentine to the Golden State, That Left Turn at Albuquerque marks the return of noir master Scott Phillips. Douglas Rigby, attorney-at-law, is bankrupt. He’s just sunk his last $200,000—a clandestine “loan” from his last remaining client, former bigshot TV exec Glenn Haskill—into a cocaine deal gone wrong. The lesson? Never trust anyone else with the dirty work. Desperate to get back on top, Rigby formulates an art forgery scheme involving one of Glenn’s priceless paintings, a victimless crime. But for Rigby to pull this one off, he’ll need to negotiate a whole cast of players with their own agendas, including his wife, his girlfriend, an embittered art forger, Glenn’s resentful nurse, and the man’s money-hungry nephew. One misstep, and it all falls apart—will he be able to save his skin? Written with hard-knock sensibility and wicked humor, Scott Phillips’s newest novel will cement him as one of the great crime writers of the 21st century.
Author : Henry Morse Stephens
Publisher : Asian Educational Services
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 16,71 MB
Release : 2000
Category : India
ISBN : 9788120615243
Affonso de Albuquerque, 1453-1515, Portuguese conqueror of Goa and Malacca.
Author : Ty Bannerman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 47,28 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738559674
In 1706, Spanish colonists founded the Villa de Alburquerque on the wooded banks of the Rio Grande. Three hundred years later, that once quiet farming community has grown to become Albuquerque, the largest city in the state of New Mexico. Over the centuries, this fascinating city's identity has metamorphosed many times. In 1862, it briefly became the western capital of the Confederate States of America, before Confederate hopes for the territory were destroyed at the Battle of Glorieta Pass. In 1880, the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad brought industry and wealth from the east, as well as tuberculosis-infected "lungers" who came by the thousands to seek a cure in "the Heart of Health Country." Then, in 1926, Route 66 transformed the city into a neon-decked oasis for automobile travelers journeying through the newly accessible West. Though many of these identities have faded, their legacy lives on in the beating heart of an ever-changing city.
Author : University of New Mexico
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 13,1 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Universities and colleges
ISBN :
Author : Eric B. Wechter
Publisher : Fodors Travel Publications
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,72 MB
Release : 2009-03-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 140000814X
Offers information on attractions, sights, accommodations, restaurants, and activities in Santa Fe, Taos, and Albuquerque.
Author : Tania Casselle
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 15,29 MB
Release : 2010-04-13
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0762762780
Insiders' Guide to Albuquerque is the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information to one of New Mexico's most colorful cities. Written by a local (and true insider), this guide offers a personal and practical perspective of Albuquerque and its surrounding environs.
Author : Roger M. Zimmerman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 50,45 MB
Release : 2017-12-11
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1439668310
A landmark-by-landmark tour of New Mexico’s largest city, with photos and facts on its fascinating past. This tour of Albuquerque, New Mexico, goes beyond the traditional guidebook to offer a historical journal detailing an area rich with diverse cultures and dramatic events. The journey through time starts with the settlement of Native Americans in pueblos along the Rio Grande and then initiatives by Spain to settle and convert the region. Visit Old Town Plaza, where trade from the El Camino Real and Santa Fe Trails flourished. Look around lesser-known sites, including railroad depot facilities, major military landmarks and nostalgic Route 66. Join local history expert Roger Zimmerman as he carefully curates an expedition through each era of Albuquerque’s history and its most beloved sites
Author : Naomi Sandweiss
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 32,10 MB
Release : 2011-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1439624844
Albuquerque, founded by Spanish colonists in 1706, seems an unusual place for Jewish immigrants to settle. Yet long before New Mexico statehood in 1912, Jewish settlers had made their homes in the high desert town, located on the banks of the Rio Grande River. Initially, business opportunities lured German Jews to the Santa Fe Trail; during the expansive railroad days of the 1880s, Jewish citizens were poised to take on leadership roles in business, government, and community life. Henry Jaffa, a Jewish merchant and acquaintance of Wyatt Earp, served as Albuquerques first mayor. From launching businesses along Central Avenue, to establishing the Indian Trading Room at the famed Alvarado Hotel and founding trading posts, Route 66 tourist establishments, and the Sandia Tram, Jewish businesspeople partnered with their neighbors to boost Albuquerques already plentiful assets. Along the way, community members built Jewish organizationsa Bnai Brith chapter, Congregation Albert, and Congregation Bnai Israelthat made their mark upon the larger Albuquerque community.
Author : Ann Piper,
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 24,21 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Education
ISBN : 1467131032
A mix of cultures unique to any space in North America funneled into the Albuquerque, New Mexico, area after Spanish invaders stumbled in through the south in 1506. For centuries, indigenous Americans had established ways of knowing and transmitting learning to their young, but colliding old and new cultures left the areas learning communities irrevocably changed. Subsequently, other native tribes and more European, South American, and Asian cultures proudly ported their perceived best practices concerning educating youth into the area. In 1880, the railroad, bolstered by powerful Anglo economic forces, blasted into Albuquerque, carrying new cultures clinging to the railcars: Greeks, Italians, Germans, Jews of many heritages, English, Easterners, Southerners, a host of cowboys, farmers, merchants, and moreall shadowed by motivated politicians. The founding, unfolding, and evolution of educational systems in Albuquerque weaves a crazy-quilt story regarding public, private, and parochial schoolingas well as regrettably ill-founded systems that wronged natives.--Amazon.com.
