"In Searching for Golden Empires, William K. Hartmann tells a true-life adventure story that recounts the shared history of the United States and Mexico, unveiling episodes both tragic and uplifting. Hernan Cortez Montezuma, Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, and Viceroy Antonio Mendoza are just some of the principal eyewitnesses in this vivid history of New World exploration"--Provided by publisher. "This lively book recounts the explorations of the...

"The conquest of Mexico is over, and Juan de Toñanes is just one of the many inglorious soldiers eking a small existence on the land he helped conquer. When he receives one last mission, to hunt down a renegade Indian who calls himself the Padre and preaches a dangerous heresy, Juan realizes it may be his last chance to create the future he's always dreamed of. But as he moves deep into the unexplored northern territory, hot on the Padre's trail,...

A fictionalized account of a Nahua woman who grew up in Mexico during the early 1900s, became a model for artists, worked with scholars to preserve Nahuatl language and stories, and was known as the "soul of Mexico." Includes author's note, timeline, and glossary.

In 1898, just after his Bar Mitzvah, thirteen-year-old Elan and his family travel to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he meets his mother's family and participates in the Pueblo ceremony of becoming a man.

"A travel and reference guide to ancient Arizona and New Mexico. The Grand Circle Tour is a circuit around a collection of National Parks and Native American sites in the Four Corners Region of the Southwest. The book is divided into two parts: Part 1 covers 41 archaeological sites and museums and Part 2 examines the history, culture, and archaeology of the Mogollon, Hohokam, Salado, and Sinagua. The travel guide may be used for individual sites of...

En 1429 el Principe Nezahualcóyotl, Izcóatl, y una decena de pueblos más se unen pata derrocar a Maxtla , el tirano usurpador que gobierna todo el valle del Anáhuac. Tras la caída de Azcapotzalco, las tropas aliadas regresan a sus ciudades de origen, en donde esperan a que Nezahualcóyotl sea reconocido y jurado com huei chichimécatl tecutli (gran gobernante chichimeca), pero eso jamás ocurre. Mientras Chalco y Huexotla se sublevan e inician...

"Provides a new look at Native nations and the economies and societies they built as well as a radically new understanding of the web of families, businesses, and personal empires that organized the North American West before the Civil War"--P. [4] of cover.

"Where do human societies come from? The drive to answer this question took on a new urgency in the nineteenth century, when a generation of archaeologists began to look beyond the bible for the origins of different cultures and civilizations. A child of the San Francisco Gold Rush whose mother was born in Mexico City, Zelia Nuttall threw herself into the study of Aztec customs and cosmology, eager to use the tools of the emerging science of anthropology...