Books from Sunstone Press

  • Eternity at the End of a Rope: Executions, Lynchings and Vigilante Justice in Texas, 1819-1923
    By Clifford R. Caldwell, Ron DeLord

    ... _____, 366 Jefferson, James, 96 Jefferson, Robert, 547 Jekins, Granville, 413 Jenkins, Edward, 204 Jenkins, S. F., ... Charles (C.A.), 117 Jones, Charles, 549, 550 Jones, Clark (Clarke), 177, 178 Jones, Clark, 160 Jones, Commodore, ...

  • The Fourth Dimension in Architecture: The Impact of Building on Behavior : Eero Saarinen's Administrative Center for Deere & Company,...
    By Mildred Reed Hall, Edward Twitchell Hall

    This study of how the architecture of a building influences the people who work in it is of interest to architects, behavioralists, and management personnel as well as fans of architecture in general.

  • Maxwell Land Grant: Facsimile of 1942 Edition
    By William A. Keleher

    They prefer to peel the bark in the winter time, from huge pine trees of the forests of the Maxwell Grant, and hunt and fish for a livelihood in the summer than to settle down to a monotonous agricultural life in the fertile valley of ...

  • The Missions of New Mexico Since 1776
    By John L. Kessell

    Reprint. Abuquerque: Horn and Wallace, 1965. Bloom, Lansing B., ed. “Alburquerque and Galisteo, Certificate of Their Founding, 1706.” New Mexico Historical Review 10 (1935): 48-50. Bourke, John G., “Bourke on the Southwest.

  • Robert Clay Allison: Requiescat in Pace
    By James Stephen Peters

    On January twenty-first Chittenden wired Axtell, "It is impossible for me to enforce civil law." Axtell shot back with relish, "Will accept your resignation forwarded by mail." Chittenden, who had been in office barely four months and ...

  • Riata and Spurs: The Story of a Lifetime Spent in the Saddle as Cowboy and Detective
    By Charles Angelo Siringo

    All in all, this fascinating book will give today's readers a rare glimpse of what was once called the Old West and is now gone forever. This new edition includes a new foreword by New Mexico historian Marc Simmons.

  • A Lone Star Cowboy
    By Charles A. Siringo

    Prior to 1922, one of Santa Fe, New Mexico's, most colorful and famous residents was Charles Angelo Siringo (1855-1928), popularly known as "the cowboy detective.

  • High Skies and Fat Horses: A Novel of War and Human Imperfection
    By William J. Wallisch

    Every night I'd come home and Angie and I would put the nickels, dimes, and quarters in neat piles and know that we were going to make it through the summer just fine until it was time to make sandwiches again. Now the nickels and ...

  • Adobe Houses for Today: Flexible Plans for Your Adobe Home
    By Laura Sanchez, Alex Sanchez

    It is essential that the bottom of a footing lie below the frost line , a depth of about 18 " below the surface of the ground in central New Mexico . Local codes will specify the frost line depth in your area . If your frost line is ...

  • Georgia O’Keeffe, A Private Friendship, Part I: Walking the Sun Prairie Land
    By Nancy Hopkin Reily

    In 1907, Bell married Vanessa Stephen, the sister of Virginia Stephen, who became Virginia Woolf after her marriage to Leonard Woolf. These four formed the nucleus of the Bloomsbury Group, a collection of English writers and artists.

  • Bounded Rationality: A Novel
    By Pamela McCorduck

    Her mother's been divorced so many times she's lost count.” Everyone laughed. “Better than Marcie Griffin's mother, who doesn't even bother to get married anymore. They say.” More laughter. “No. My country isn't safe at the moment.

  • Audrey of the Mountains: The Story of a Twentieth Century Pioneer Woman
    By Dorothy Audrey Simpson

    Milly was beautiful and was a wonderful singer. She could have had a career as a singer. She was at least as beautiful — even without wearing make-up and her having her hair done — as most of the movie stars and singers of her time.

  • Song on a Blue Guitar: A Novel
    By Dorothy Cave

    Inside Joe would see a singer on a high stool at the end of a long bar. A guitarristo. The cantina had a juke box, but it had been broken for years. No one missed it, though, not with such a fine singer. He came every night to enrich ...

  • A Cottonwood Stand: A Novel of Nebraska
    By Chuck Redman

    It was luck I gotta say that put the Marble Arch Mobile Home Park at the exact spot where it sits out on East Cottonwood Way, no further from Todd's Liquor Store than old Sid Haabert can fling an empty pint. That way, Sid can get over ...

  • Blaney Park: A Novel
    By Rebecca Calanni, Matthew Diment

    She discovers more than just a familiar love of the environment with the help of Elsie Brooks, a retired native of Blaney Park.

  • New Mexico Stories: Truths, Tales and Mysteries Along the Rio Grande, A Memoir
    By David Roybal

    King named his longtime friend and supporter, Ray Powell Jr., to succeed Baca. Neither Powell nor his father, the state Democratic Party chairman, had the confidence of vocal environmentalists. The state Land Office is charged with ...

  • Georgia O'Keeffe, A Private Friendship, Part II: Walking the Abiquiu and Ghost Ranch Land
    By Nancy Hopkins Reily

    _ Peggy Samuels and Harold Samuels, Samuels' Encyclopedia of Artists of the American W/est, (Secaucus, New Jersey: Book Sales, Castle, 1985), 250. . Creative Arts Awards Collection; Brandeis University Bulletin, Robert D. Farber ...

  • Ask about Florida
    By James J. Raciti

    ... gave assistance in the form of rations, help in organizing black schools and gave out information on their new rights. 275. What marked the first postwar state government in Florida? With the inauguration of Governor David S. Walker ...

  • The Sisterhood: The Inside Story of the Women's Movement and the Leaders Who Made it Happen
    By Marcia Cohen

    London: Oxford University Press, 1972. Charvet, John. Feminism. London: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1982. Cherow-O'Leary, Dr. Renee, and NOW LDEF. The State-by -State Guide to Women's Legal Rights. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1987.

  • The Mutilators
    By Robert L. Foster

    Abe introduced me to Nora Pearson, Ned's wife, then he sped off with lights flashing and siren wailing. Nora told me about their mutilated bull—but said she'd be damned if she'd escort me out there. She was scared.