http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/2010/04/22#new-mexico <P>Especially northern New Mexico, especially Santa Fe and environs. (You'd think that, having lived there for five years, I'd have something to say about it... Let's see. Sunsets: gorgeous. Chile: Addictive; I crave it regularly. Life in a city carefully designed to separate rich, middle-aged people from their money can be less than enchanting when one is young and far from over-paid, if definitely not poor.) <ul>Recommended: <li>Lynne Sebastian, <cite>The Chaco Anasazi: Sociopolitical Evolution in the Prehistoric Southwest</cite> <li>Robert Silverberg, <cite>The Great Pueblo Revolt</cite> [One of the few times the natives of the Americas were actually able to drive back their conquerors; probably the largest such reverse. Not the part of history the tourist trade likes you to hear about.] <li>Marc Simmons, <cite>The Last Conquistador: Juan de Onate and the Settling of the Far Southwest</cite> </ul> <ul>To read: <li>Ronald L. Grimes, <cite>Symbol and Conquest: Public Ritual and Drama in Santa Fe</cite> <li>Joseph Masco, <cite>The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico</cite> [<a href="http://pup.princeton.edu/titles/8185.html">Blurb, ch. 1</a>] <li>Charles Montgomery, <cite>The Spanish Redemption: Heritage, Power, and Loss on New Mexico's Upper Rio Grande</cite> [<a href="http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9418.php">blurb</a>] <li>Molly H. Mullin, <cite>Culture in the Marketplace: Gender, Art and Value in the American Southwest</cite> <li>Ed Regis, <cite>The Info Mesa: Science, Business, and New Age Alchemy on the Santa Fe Plateau</cite> [Yeah, right] <li>Marc Treib, <cite>Sancutaries of Spanish New Mexico</cite> [<a href="http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft72900812/">Online</a>] <li>David J. Weber, <cite>What Caused the Pueblo Revolt of 1680?</cite> <li>Michael V. Wilcox, <cite>The Pueblo Revolt and the Mythology of Conquest: An Indigenous Archaeology of Contact</cite> [<a href="http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/10795.php">blurb</a>] <li>Chris Wilson, <cite>The Myth of Santa Fe: Creating a Modern Regional Tradition</cite> </ul>