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People of the Sun: Some Out-of-Fashion Southwesterners
by Simmons, Marc; Powell, Lawrence Clark Foreword
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0826305105
- ISBN 13
- 9780826305107
- Seller
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Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
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About This Item
Albuquerque - New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, 1979. First Edition Stated . Hard Back. Very Good/Very Good. 8 1/2" X 11. Mays, Buddy - Photography. 142 Pages. Tan boards with dark brown lettering to the spine and dark green endpapers. Text is 21 pages by Marc Simmons, a recognized New Mexican historian. Buddy Mays is a Native New Mexican and longtime resident of Santa Fe and is a former contract photographer for the National Geographic Society and Chevrolet and this is his 121 page black and white pictorial book. It is signed by Maria Concepcion "Concha" Ortiz y Pino de Kleven (born 23 May 1910) was born to a prominent family of politicians in Galisteo, New Mexico. In 1936 she became the sixth generation of her family to serve in the New Mexico legislature. Her father, Jose Ortiz y Pino, spent 10 years in the state House of Representatives. In 1941, at age 30, she became Democratic majority whip, the first woman to hold such a position in state government.[ President Kennedy appointed her to the National Council of Upward Bound. Ortiz y Pino founded the state's first educational program dedicated to traditional Hispanocrafts, the Colonial Hispanic Crafts School, in Galisteo in 1929. She advocated for bilingual education, disabled and women's rights. In 2004 Governor Richardson named the building for the Office of the State Engineer after her. She died in Santa Fe September 30, 2006.
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- Bookseller
- Dons Book Store
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20739
- Title
- People of the Sun: Some Out-of-Fashion Southwesterners
- Author
- Simmons, Marc; Powell, Lawrence Clark Foreword
- Illustrator
- Mays, Buddy - Photography
- Format/Binding
- Hard Back
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Stated
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0826305105
- ISBN 13
- 9780826305107
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press
- Place of Publication
- Albuquerque - New Mexico
- Date Published
- 1979
- Size
- 8 1/2" X 11
- Keywords
- HISTORY NEW MEXICO CIVLIZATION MEXICAN AMERICANS COWBOYS SETTLERS
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