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References for Children

Native American

American Girls Collection. (2003). Welcome to Kaya's World-1764. Chicago, IL: Pleasant Company.Carlson, Paul H. (1998). The Plains Indians. Texas A&M University Press.

Becker, Cynthia S. (2008). Chipeta: Ute Peacemaker. (Now You Know Bios Series). Palmer Lake, CO: Filter Press.

Bishop, Amanda, and Kalman, Bobbie. (2003). Life in a Pueblo. NY, NY: Crabtree Publishing Company.

Bruchac, Joseph, & Farnsworth, Bill (illustrator). (2008). Buffalo Song. NY, NY: Lee & Low.

Cheyenne-Arapaho Book Project. Hinono’ei Way of Life, Prairie Thunder People, Tsististas Journey, Tsististas: People of the Plains. Contact Funston Whiteman, Project Director, 405-213-5443.

Hanson, James A., (2005). When Skins Were Money: A History of the Fur Trade. Chadron, NE: Museum of the Fur Trade

Kalman, Bobbie. (2001). Life in a Plains Camp. NY, NY: Crabtree Publishing Company.

Kalman, Bobbie. (2001). Nations of the Plains. NY, NY: Crabtree Publishing Company.

Kaelin, Cellinda R. & the Pikes Peak Historical Society. (2008). American Indians of the Pikes Peak Region (Images of America Series). Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing.

Maxwell, James A. (Ed.). (1978). Reader’s Digest America’s Fascinating Indian Heritage. Pleasantville, NY: The Reader’s Digest Association, Inc.

Wealdon, Bon I. (2002). I Will Be Meat for My Salish People: Montana Writers Project and the Buffalo of the Flathead Indian Reservation. Billings, Montana: Montana Historical Society Press. 

 

 

Camino Real

Moorhead, Max L. (1958). New Mexico’s Royal Road: Trade and Travel on the Chihuahua Trail. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press. 

 

Taos

Chavez, Thomas E. (2006). New Mexico Past and Future. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press.

Cisneros, Jose. (1984). Riders Across the Centuries: Horsemen of the Spanish Borderlands. El Paso, TX: University of Texas at El Paso.

Dorgan Meketa, Jacqueline. (2000). Legacy of Honor: The Life of Rafael Chacón A Nineteenth-century New Mexican. Las Cruces, NM: Yucca Tree Press.

Garrard, Lewis H. (1968). Wah-to-yah & the Taos Trail. Palo Alto, CA: American West Publishing Co.

Simmons, Marc. (1987). Murder on the Santa Fe Trail: An International Incident, 1843. El Paso, TX: University of Texas.

Weber, David J., Miller, Skip, and Richardson, Anthony. (1996). On the Edge of Empire: The Taos Hacienda of Los Martinez. Santa Fe, NM: Museum of New Mexico Press.

 

Bent’s Old Fort

Bacon, Melvin and Blegen, Daniel. (1995). Bent's Fort Crossroad of Cultures on the Santa Fe Trail. Brookfield, CT: Millbrook Press.

Hyslop, Stephen G. (2002) Bound for Santa Fe: The Road to New Mexico and the American Conquest, 1806-1848. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.

Lavender, David. (1954). Bent’s Fort. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.

Oliva, Leo E., Ed.(1988). Adventure on the Santa Fe Trail. Topeka, KS: Kansas State Historical Society.

 

El Pueblo Trading Post

Buckles, William G. (1998). The Search for El Pueblo: Through Pueblo to El Pueblo, An Archaeological Summary. Pueblo, CO: City of Pueblo.

Hammond, G. P. (Ed.). (1976). The Adventures of Alexander Barclay Mountain Man. Denver.

Lecompte, Janet. (1978). Pueblo, Hardscrabble, Greenhorn: Society on the High Plains, 1832-1856. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.

Litvak, Dianna. (2006). El Pueblo History Museum Capsule History and Guide.  Denver, CO: Colorado Historical Society.

Wilson, Elinor. (1972). Jim Beckwourth-Black Mountain Man and War Chief of the Crows. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.

 

 

Children’s Books, Fiction 

Carson, William C. (2002). Peter Becomes a Trail Man. Illustrated by Pat Oliphant. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press.

Finley, Mary Peace. (1999). Little Fox's Secret: The Mystery of Bent's Fort. Palmer Lake, CO: Filter Press.

Finley, Mary Peace. (1993). Soaring Eagle. Palmer Lake, CO: Filter Press.

Finley, Mary Peace. (2000). White Grizzly. Palmer Lake, CO: Filter Press.

Finley, Mary Peace. (2003). Meadow Lark. Palmer Lake, CO: Filter Press.

Sanchez, Mary Louise. (2018). The Wind Calls My Name. TU Books: an imprint of Lee & Low Books.

Websites

Vanishing Horizons Publishing

http://www.vanishinghorizons.com

El Pueblo History Museum

http://www.coloradohistory.org/hist_sites/Pueblo/Pueblo.htm

Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)

http://www.nps.gov/beol/index.htm

Santa Fe, Rancho de las Golondrinas Living History Museum

http://www.golondrinas.org/Taos

 

Historical Society

http://www.taos-history.org/

Martinez Hacienda

http://taosmuseums.org/hac_martinez.php

http://www.taoshistoricmuseums.org/hacienda-de-los-martinez/

Fur Trade History

www.thefurtrapper.com

Santa Fe Trail History

www.vlb.us/old_west/trails/sfthist.html

Taos Pueblo

www.taospueblo.com

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