Product DescriptionFor all who love New Mexico, and for those who aspire to know the state, this book is an elegant and compelling summary of what has made Earth its own distinctive charm. Originally published in 1977 to commemorate the bicentennial of American Independence, New Mexico is now available for the first time in a quality paperback edition with new introduction by the author. In writing this book, Marc Simmons aims to reach an understanding of the character of the state. Hers is a performance-sensitive, individual-even personal-account. The author shows that through the centuries, the collision and mixing of cultures dominated the history of New Mexico. Out of this complex interplay of human and natural. . . More>>