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or click for: Carlsbad Caverns National Park,  Chaco Culture National Historical Park,   Manhattan Project National Historical Park, Petroglyph National Monument,   Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument, Santa Fe National Historic Trail ,  White Sands National Park

BIRDS OF NEW MEXICO'S NATIONAL PARK LANDS. by John P. & Claudia L. Hubbard.
Compilation provides broad view of birding possibilities in the ten national monuments and one national park in New Mexico. Capsule descriptions explain area features and aspects of its birdlife. Extensive chart shows parks and monuments where 330 species and subspecies have been recorded, with status at each location. Drawings, map, 40 pages.
ISBN: 0-915030-27-6. 1979. Order #: AMTR6550 paper$ 4.95.

 

 

CARLSBAD CAVERNS: silent chambers, timeless beauty. by John Barnett.
Cave formation, exploration, natural features of national park in New Mexico. Explains the geologic origin of this underground cave adorned with formations formed by mineral-laden dripping water in a massive cavern originally hollowed out of limestone rock. Tells of cave discovery and history of exploration and development including mining of guano deposited by the cave's extensive bat population. How the formations form, character of the various kinds. Tells what a cave tour is like and also of the natural landscape and its plants and animals above the cave. Diagram gives profile map of cave passages, entry, and rooms. Color photos, 36 large-format pages.
Check stock. ISBN: None. 1981. Order #: CACA1888 paper $5.95.

 

CARLSBAD CAVERNS NATIONAL PARK. by Ruth Radlauer.
Children's guide to underground area of bats and dripstone formations, and to desert above. How the cave and its stalagmites and other rock sculptures were made and are being made. Cacti, wildflowers, and animals of the area. For younger readers. Color photos, 48 pages.
Inventory = 4 ISBN: 0-516-47742-0. Order #: CHIL2065 paper$4.95.

 

 

DARK SUN: the making of the hydrogen bomb--cloth. Rhodes.
Definitive, often shocking, story of the politics and science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and birth of the Cold War. Based om files in both the United States and the Soviet Union, this history discloses how and why the United States decided to create the bomb that would dominate world politics for over 40 years. Extensive notes, photographs, 731 pages, index.
ISBN: 0-684-80400-X. 1995. Order #: SISC6083 cloth $32.50.

DARK SUN: the making of the hydrogen bomb--paper. by Richard Rhodes.
Definitive, often shocking, story of the politics and science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and birth of the Cold War. Based om files in both the United States and the Soviet Union, this history discloses how and why the United States decided to create the bomb that would dominate world politics for over 40 years. Extensive notes, photographs, 731 pages, index.
ISBN: 0-684-82414-0. 1995. Order #: SISC8812 paper $16.00.

 

THE GOOD SERVANT: making peace with the Bomb at Los Alamos. by Janet Bailey.
Roles of this scientific community in making nuclear weapons and peacetime research. How these products have been and could be used in war and how they have also helped reduce the chance of war, even perhaps causing the end of the Cold War. Behind-the-scenes look at the labs and scientists involved in this work, including those in Russia. 188 pages.
ISBN: 0-684-80939-7. 1995. Order #: SISC6103 cloth $22.00.

 

 

GRAND CIRCLE ADVENTURE. by Reed.
Parks and monuments in southern Utah and Colorado, northern Arizona and New Mexico--desert and rockscapes, Indian sites. 72 color photos, 48 large-format pages.
ISBN: 0-916122-94-8. 1983. Order #: KCPU0726 paper $8.95.

 

 

THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB-paper. by Richard Rhodes.
Complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the 1900s discovery of the vast energy locked inside the atom to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan. Beginning as an interesting speculative problem in physics, the effort grew into the Manhattan Project and then rapidly into the bomb itself, produced by scientists known only to their peers but to assume notoriety and controversy. Photographs, 886 pages, bibliography and index.
ISBN: 0-684-81378-5. 1986. Order #: SISC6151 paper $16.00.

 

SALINAS: archaeology, history, prehistory. Edited by David Grant Noble.
National monument in New Mexico includes pueblo Indian and Spanish mission sites of Gran Quivira, Quarai, and Abo. Spanish efforts here to gain riches from silver and to spread their faith failed and neither they nor the Indians survived. 'though their missions still stand as empty shells and there are remnants of the pueblo towns. Now a national monument, the story is told of the native Americans beginning at least 10,000 years ago as various peoples dominated the area. Rock art is discussed, with several photographs, and there are the stories of the Pueblo Revolt and of Bernardo Gruber and a superstition he promoted to his dismay. Illustrated, maps, 40 large-format pages.
ISBN: 0-941270-78-5 1982. Order #: ANCI8013 paper $8.95.

 

SALINAS: archaeology, history, prehistory. Edited by David Grant Noble.
National monument in New Mexico includes pueblo Indian and Spanish mission sites of Gran Quivira, Quarai, and Abo. Spanish efforts here to gain riches from silver and to spread their faith failed and neither they nor the Indians survived. 'though their missions still stand as empty shells and there are remnants of the pueblo towns. Now a national monument, the story is told of the native Americans beginning at least 10,000 years ago as various peoples dominated the area. Rock art is discussed, with several photographs, and there are the stories of the Pueblo Revolt and of Bernardo Gruber and a superstition he promoted to his dismay. Illustrated, maps, 40 large-format pages.
ISBN: 978-0-941270-78-6. 2009. Order #: GISM1852 paper $9.95.

SANTA FE TRAIL--Voyage of Discovery the story behind the scenery. Murphy.
History of wagon route from Kansas City, Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico--ruts still visible on the trail, ruins of posts, the restored Bent's Fort, wagons, and travelers. 64 large-format pages, color illustrations.
ISBN:0-88714-086-6. 1994. Order #: KCPU4869 paper$8.95.

 

 

WHITE SANDS: wind, sand, and time. by Richard Atkinson.
Natural and human history of White Sands National Monument, New Mexico, an area of unusual sand dunes made from blowing crystals of the mineral gypsum and not from quartz grains as is more usual throughout the world. Explains how the gypsum originated and became wind-blown to pile on the desert floor, and tells of how the dunes are formed, with 3 main types and some unusual patterns. Tells how the dunes advance across the desert, making places for plants and then burying them and of the animal life that lives in the harsh environment. Concludes with the human story of Native Americans, ranching, and U.S. Army cavalry, recreational use today, and nearby sites to visit.. 13 color photos, 44 large-format pages.
ISBN: 0911408-46-0. 1987. Order #: SOPM1306 paper $4.95.

List of National Park System areas in New Mexico:
Aztec Ruins National Monument
Bandelier National Monument
Capulin Volcano National Monument
Carlsbad Caverns National Park
Chaco Culture National Historical Park
El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail
El Malpais National Monument
El Morro National Monument
Fort Union National Monument
Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument
Manhattan Project National Historical Park
Old Spanish Trail National Historic Trail
Pecos National Historical Park
Petroglyph National Monument
Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument
Santa Fe National Historic Trail
Valles Caldera National Preserve
White Sands National Park

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ROCK ART OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN. by Campbell Grant.
This book surveys the myriad rock paintings and carvings--numbering possibly some 15,000 sites--pecked into and painted onto boulders and rock surfaces throughout North America by its aboriginal artists.  See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-084-3. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-084-3. Order #: VIST0084 paper $12.95.
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