Recommended Reading for. . .
The Civil War to Cold War in New Mexico
(watch for new books to be added before 2019)
CIVIL WAR:
The Battle of Glorieta: Union Victory in the West (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series), by Don Alberts
The Civil War in the Western Territories: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah, by Ray C. Colton
New Mexico and the Civil War, by Dr. Walter Earl Pittman
Rebels on the Rio Grande: The Civil War Journal of A.B. Peticolas, by Dr. Don E. Alberts
LINCOLN COUNTY WAR:
High Noon in Lincoln: Violence on the Western Frontier, by Robert Utley
Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life, by Robert Utley
The West of Billy the Kid, by Frederick Dolan
[see more Billy the Kid recommendations here]
COLD WAR:
The Making of the Atomic Bomb, by Richard Rhodes;
The Day the Sun Rose Twice: The Story of the Trinity Site Nuclear Explosion, July 16, 1945,
by Ferenc Morton Szasz
The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico, by Joseph Masco
NEW MEXICO:
New Mexico, A History, by Sanchez, Spude, and Gomez
New Mexico: A History of Four Centuries, by Warren Beck
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