The House at Otowi Bridge

The House at Otowi Bridge PDF Author: Peggy Pond Church
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826302816
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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A tribute to Edith Warner who befriended both the Indians of San Ildefonso and the atomic scientists at Los Alamos.

The House at Otowi Bridge

The House at Otowi Bridge PDF Author: Peggy Pond Church
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826302816
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Book Description
A tribute to Edith Warner who befriended both the Indians of San Ildefonso and the atomic scientists at Los Alamos.

The House at Otowi Bridge

The House at Otowi Bridge PDF Author: Peggy Pond Church
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 0826325505
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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This is the story of Edith Warner, who lived for more than twenty years as a neighbor to the Indians of San Ildefonso Pueblo, near Los Alamos, New Mexico. She was a remarkable woman, a friend to everyone who knew her, from her Indian companion Tilano, who was an elder of San Ildefonso, to Niels Bohr, Robert Oppenheimer, and the other atomic scientists who worked at Los Alamos during World War II. "A finely told tale of a strange land and of a rare character who united with it and, without seeming to do anything to that end, exerted an unusual influence upon all other lovers of that soil with whom she came in contact. The quality of the country, of the many kinds of people, and of the central character come through excellently." --Oliver La Farge

In the Shadow of Los Alamos

In the Shadow of Los Alamos PDF Author: Edith Warner
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 0826319785
Category : Los Alamos Region (N.M.)
Languages : en
Pages : 314

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To read this book is to hear her own quiet voice, describing pueblo ceremonials, detailing the difficulties of life during the war years, and above all recording her own spiritual relationship with the New Mexico landscape.

Woman at Otowi Crossing

Woman at Otowi Crossing PDF Author: Frank Waters
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Paranormal fiction
Languages : en
Pages :

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The Wives of Los Alamos

The Wives of Los Alamos PDF Author: TaraShea Nesbit
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408845989
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Their average age was twenty-five. They came from Berkeley, Cambridge, Paris, London and Chicago – and arrived in New Mexico ready for adventure or at least resigned to it. But hope quickly turned to hardship in the desolate military town where everything was a secret, including what their husbands were doing at the lab. They lived in barely finished houses with a P.O. Box for an address, in a town wreathed with barbed wire, all for the benefit of 'the project' that didn't exist as far as the greater world was concerned. They were constrained by the words they couldn't say out loud, the letters they couldn't send home, the freedom they didn't have. Though they were strangers, they joined together – babies were born, friendships were forged, children grew up. But then 'the project' was unleashed and even bigger challenges faced the women of Los Alamos, as they struggled with the burden of their contribution towards the creation of the most destructive force in mankind's history – the atomic bomb. Contentious, gripping and intimate, The Wives of Los Alamos is a personal tale of one of the most momentous events in our history.

Gatekeeper to Los Alamos

Gatekeeper to Los Alamos PDF Author: Nancy Cook Steeper
Publisher: Los Alamos Historical Society Publications
ISBN: 9780941232302
Category : Los Alamos (N.M.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Dorothy Ann Scarritt was born 12 December 1897 in Kansas City, Missouri. Her parents were William Chick Scarritt and Frances Virginia Davis. She graduated from Smith College in 1919. She married Joseph Chambers McKibbin (1893-1931), son of Joseph McKibbin and Mary Henderson Dorsey, 5 October 1927. They had one son, Kevin. She raised her son in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she became secretary for the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory from 1943 to 1963. She died in 1985.

The Land of Journeys' Ending

The Land of Journeys' Ending PDF Author: Mary Austin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 488

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The Pot Thief Who Studied the Woman at Otowi Crossing

The Pot Thief Who Studied the Woman at Otowi Crossing PDF Author: J. Michael Orenduff
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504067169
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 201

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A New Mexico pottery dealer cracks a perplexing mystery in this “winning blend of humor and character development” (Publishers Weekly). Hubert Schuze is an adjunct professor at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, and he has a fairly lucrative side gig digging up ancient relics and selling them. He also seems to have a talent for finding killers. When Hubie discovers a body outside his pottery shop, it appears the victim was stabbed in the back with something resembling a screwdriver. But the story gets a lot more mysterious when a video turns up showing the man collapsing with no one else nearby. Furthermore, a slip of paper is found in his pocket, with Hubie’s name and address on it, suggesting there may be a connection between the two men—though Hubie has no idea what it could be. Now, the professor and pottery expert must put his sleuthing skills to work—while simultaneously managing his new role running the university’s art department—to piece together the shards of a baffling crime in this “breezy” novel from a winner of the Left Award for Best Humorous Mystery starring a “witty” amateur detective (Albuquerque Journal). “[A] winning series.” —Susan Wittig Albert, New York Times–bestselling author of the China Bayles Herbal Mysteries

Ladies of the Canyons

Ladies of the Canyons PDF Author: Lesley Poling-Kempes
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816524947
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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Ladies of the Canyons is the true story of remarkable women who left the security and comforts of genteel Victorian society and journeyed to the American Southwest in search of a wider view of themselves and their world. Educated, restless, and inquisitive, Natalie Curtis, Carol Stanley, Alice Klauber, and Mary Cabot Wheelwright were plucky, intrepid women whose lives were transformed in the first decades of the twentieth century by the people and the landscape of the American Southwest. Part of an influential circle of women that included Louisa Wade Wetherill, Alice Corbin Henderson, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Mary Austin, and Willa Cather, these ladies imagined and created a new home territory, a new society, and a new identity for themselves and for the women who would follow them. Their adventures were shared with the likes of Theodore Roosevelt and Robert Henri, Edgar Hewett and Charles Lummis, Chief Tawakwaptiwa of the Hopi, and Hostiin Klah of the Navajo. Their journeys took them to Monument Valley and Rainbow Bridge, into Canyon de Chelly, and across the high mesas of the Hopi, down through the Grand Canyon, and over the red desert of the Four Corners, to the pueblos along the Rio Grande and the villages in the mountains between Santa Fe and Taos. Although their stories converge in the outback of the American Southwest, the saga of Ladies of the Canyons is also the tale of Boston’s Brahmins, the Greenwich Village avant-garde, the birth of American modern art, and Santa Fe’s art and literary colony. Ladies of the Canyons is the story of New Women stepping boldly into the New World of inconspicuous success, ambitious failure, and the personal challenges experienced by women and men during the emergence of the Modern Age.

Ultimatum for Man

Ultimatum for Man PDF Author: Peggy Pond Church
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Located in Southwest Collection.