Richard Melzer is a professor of history at the University of New Mexico-Valencia Campus. He is an award-winning author of many books and articles about New Mexico, including two grade school textbooks for New Mexico”s 2012 centennial celebration of statehood. Sunstone Press has published three of his previous books, including „Buried Treasures, Famous and Unusual Gravesites in New Mexico History, ” „Breakdown: How the Secret of the Atomic Bomb was Stolen during World War II, ” and „When We Were Young in the West: True Stories of Childhood.”
12 Ebooks de Richard Melzer
Richard Melzer: Sanatoriums of New Mexico
Tuberculosis, also known as consumption, the White Plague, or simply TB, was the number-one killer in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Many physicians of the era advised t …
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Richard Melzer: Legendary Locals of Albuquerque
Spanish settlers founded Albuquerque in 1706, making it the third of only four villas (towns) in colonial New Mexico. Located in the Rio Abajo along a wide turn on the Rio Grande, the settlement deve …
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Richard Melzer & John Taylor: Murder, Mystery & Mayheim in the Rio Abajo
These are but a few of the incidents of murder, mystery, and mayhem that make the Rio Abajo such a treasure trove of intriguing history for local residents and historians alike. This volume is an att …
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Richard Melzer: Sunshine and Shadows in New Mexico’s Past, Volume 1
Sunshine and Shadows in New Mexico’s Past has one main goal: to reveal the sharp contrasts in New Mexico history. As with all states, New Mexico has had its share of admirable as well as deplorable m …
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€12.43
Richard Melzer: Sunshine and Shadows in New Mexico’s Past, Volume 2
Sunshine and Shadows in New Mexico’s Past has one main goal: to reveal the sharp contrasts in New Mexico history. As with all states, New Mexico has had its share of admirable as well as deplorable m …
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€12.29
Richard Melzer: Sunshine and Shadows in New Mexico’s Past, Volume 3
Sunshine and Shadows in New Mexico’s Past has one main goal: to reveal the sharp contrasts in New Mexico history. As with all states, New Mexico has had its share of admirable as well as deplorable m …
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€12.32
Richard Melzer: Ernie Pyle in the American Southwest
Ernie Pyle ranks with Richard Harding Davis, John Reed and Edward R. Murrow as one of the greatest war correspondents in American history. But he was different from all the correspondents who went be …
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John Taylor: Catholics along the Rio Grande
In 1540, Francisco Coronado led a band of soldiers, treasure-seekers, and Franciscan priests and friars into New Mexico, changing the lives of the Native Americans forever. In 1680, less than 100 yea …
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Richard Melzer: Don Perkins
Don Perkins led a life as one of the most honored athletes in the history of the University of New Mexico and the Dallas Cowboys. But Perkins’s life was far more complex and, at times, controversial. …
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L. Bradford Prince & Lebaron Bradford Prince: The Student’s History of New Mexico
L. Bradford Prince was one of seven territorial governors who attended the January 15th inauguration of New Mexico’s first state governor, William C. Mc Donald, in New Mexico’s long-awaited statehood …
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Lebaron Bradford Prince & L. Bradford Prince: Historical Sketches of New Mexico
Le Baron Bradford Prince (1840-1922) was a transplanted New Yorker, a tireless judge, a controversial territorial governor, a gentleman scholar, and an early leader of the Historical Society of New M …
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Richard Melzer: Breakdown
The enormous effort-called the Manhattan Project-that produced the world’s first atomic bomb was supposed to be the best kept secret of World War II. And the Project’s Los Alamos, New Mexico site whe …
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