8/22/2005
This is a list of some people who’ve lived in NM & their memoirs. Because some titles have several call-numbers, please check the library's catalog for the specific location of the title you are seeking. The library's home page can be found at: www.cabq.gov/library
For further information on an author, please check the catalogs under SUBJECT using the person's last name. See also the NEW MEXICAN CHILDREN’S AUTHORS, NEW MEXICO AUTHORS & NEW MEXICO INDEX lists on this site.
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Diane Ackerman - Twilight of the Tenderfoot: a Western Memoir - 978.924 A182
Bill Adams - El Rancho Kid - Biography Adams
Eveline M. Alexander - Cavalry Wife: the Diary of Eveline M. Alexander, 1866-1867 Biography A375
Clinton P. Anderson - Outsider in the Senate - Biography A545
Lori Arviso Alvord, MD. - The Scalpel and the Silver Bear - 617.092273 Alvord
Mary Austin - Earth Horizon - Biography A937
Land of Journeys’ Ending - 979 Austin
Jimmy Santiago Baca - A Place to Stand: the Making of a Poet - 811.54 Baca
Working in the Dark: Reflections of a Poet of the Barrio - 811 B116
Drew Bacigalupa - Journal of an Itinerant Artist - Biography B125
Kenneth C. Balcomb - A Boy's Albuquerque, 1898-1912 - 978.961 Balcomb
Samuel B. Ballen - Without Reservations: From Harlem to the End of the Santa Fe Trail - Biography Ballen
Eliott S. Barker - Beatty's Cabin - 917.89 B255
Smokey Bear & the Great Wilderness: Selected Essays & Memoirs - 639.9 B255
Western Life and Adventures - Biography B255
George Bent - Life of George Bent, Written From His Letters - 970.3 B475
Tiana Bighorse - Bighorse the Warrior - Biography B592
Stephen Bodio - Querencia - 818 B667
Frank Borman - Countdown: an Autobiography - Biography B735
Lucile Reid Brock - Taos Then: Only-In-Taos Stories, from a Bride Who Lived Them - 978.953 Brock
Jack Butler - Jack's Skillet: Plain Talk & Some Recipes From a Guy in the Kitchen - 641.5 Butler
Glen Campbell - Rhinestone Cowboy - Biography C188
Alvaro Cardona-Hine - A History of Light, A Memoir - 818.5409 Cardona-Hine
Kit Carson - Kit Carson's Autobiography - Biography C321 1966
Rafael Chacón - Legacy of Honor: the Life of Rafael Chacon, a Nineteenth-Century New Mexican, edited by Jacqueline Meketa - 978.904 C431
Suzy McKee Charnas - My Father's Ghost: the Return of My Old Man & Other Second Chances: a Memoir - 813.54 Charnas
Linda Chavez - An Unlikely Conservative: the Transformation of an Ex-Liberal, or, How I Became the Most Hated Hispanic in America Biography Chavez
Judy Chicago - Beyond the Flower: the Autobiography of a Feminist Artist - 700.92 Chicago
Through the Flower: My Struggle as a Woman Artist - 700.92 Chicago 1993
Fermor S. & Peggy Church -When Los Alamos Was a Ranch School - 373.78958 Church 1998
Ann Nolan Clark - Journey to the People - 818 C592
Agnes Morley Cleaveland - No Life for a Lady - Biography C623
Larry Clutter - Blackthorn - Biography Clutter
Louise Coe - Lady and the Law Books - Biography C672
Wilbur Coe - Ranch on the Ruidoso - Biography C672
Jane Candia Coleman - Mountain Time: a Western Memoir - Large Type 813.54 Coleman
Shadows in My Hands: a Southwestern Odyssey - 818 C692
Michael Cooper - No Slack - j 796.323 C777
Stanley Crawford - A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm - 635.09789 C899
Mayordomo: Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New Mexico - 333.91 Crawford
Mattie Barker Phillips Crews - Back to My Mountains - 929.2 Crews
George Curry - George Curry, 1861-1947: an Autobiography - Biography Curry
Lula Collins Daudet & Ruth Collins Roberts - Pinto Beans and a Silver Spoon - 818 Daudet
Tom Davis - Be Tough or Be Gone - 917.8 D264
John Denver - Take Me Home - Biography D416
Jennifer Owings Dewey - Cowgirl Dreams: a Western Childhood - j Biography Dewey
Miriam Hapgood DeWitt - Taos: a Memory - 700 DeWitt
Sam Donaldson - Hold On, Mr. President - 070.924 D676
Lois Duncan - Chapters, My Growth As a Writer - j Biography Duncan
Robert G. English - Portraits in Poetry - Biography English
Albert B. Fall - The Memoirs of Albert B. Fall - ed. by David H. Stratton - Biography Fall
Harvey Fergusson - Home In the West - 813 Fergusson
Carolyn Parnall Fink - On Call: a Nurse’s Notes on Growth & Learning - 610.73069 Fink
On Duty: a Nurse’s Notes on Life and Death - 610.73 Fink
Irene Fisher - Bathtub and Silver Bullet - 917.89 F533
Tim Fleming - A Rendezvous With Clouds - 610.92 Fleming
Jane Fonda - My Life So Far - Biography Fondaa
Harvey Frauenglass - Cidermaster of Rio Oscuro - Biography Frauenglass
Loretta & Nancy Gage - If Wishes Were Horses: the Education of a Veterinarian - Biography G132
Murray Gell-Mann - Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures In the Simple and the Complex - 530 G318
Geronimo - Geronimo's Story of His Life - Biography G377
Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Gilbert - We Fed Them Cactus - 917.89 Gilbert
Dorothy Gilman - A New Kind of Country - Biography Gilman
Gary Mex Glazner - Ears on Fire: Snapshot Essays in a World of Poets - Biography Glazner
Natalie Goldberg - The Great Failure: a Bartender, a Monk, & My Unlikely Path to Truth - 808.02 Goldberg
Living Color - 759.13 Goldberg
Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up In America - Biography G618
Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life - 808 G618
R. C. Gorman - The Radiance of My People - 759.1 G671
Calvin Graef - Ride the Waves to Freedom: Calvin Graef's Story of Survival - Biography Graef
Mari Graña - Begoso Cabin: a Pecos Country Retreat - 305.868 Grana
Kathy L. Greenwood - Heart-Diamond - 978.942 G816
Alfonso Griego - Good-bye, My Land of Enchantment - Biography G848
Edward T. Hall - Anthropology of Everyday Life - Biography H175
Bill Hanna - Cast of Friends - Biography Hanna
Laverne Hanners - Girl On a Pony - Biography H244
Arthur Thomas Hannett - Sagebrush Lawyer - Biography Hannett
Daniel R. Harkey - Mean As Hell: the Life of a New Mexico Lawman - Biography H282
Fred Harris - Potomac Fever - Biography H314
LaDonna Harris - LaDonna Harris: a Comanche Life - Biography Harris
Gretchen Heitzler - Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch - Biography H473
Eleanor B. Hibben - In Outer Places: Adventures With Frank C. Hibben - Biography H624
Tony Hillerman - Seldom Disappointed - Biography Hillerman
Calvin Horn - Climbing a Rainbow: a Family Journey of Discovery - Biography H813
Ed Howard - Safe House - Biography Howard
Anabel Howell - Ninety Miles From Nowhere - 978.993 H859
Ernestine Huning - her diary is collected in On the Santa Fe Trail, ed. by Marc Simmons - 917.8042 On
Franz Huning - Trader on the Santa Fe Trail - 917.89 H937
Tom Ireland - Birds of Sorrow - 978.9 I65
Cleofas M. Jaramillo - Romance of a Little Village Girl - 978.9 Jaramillo
Jesse D. Jennings - Accidental Archaeologist - 930.1092 Jennings
Louanne Johnson - Girls In the Back of the Class - 373.110092 Johnson
Sam Johnson - Captive Warriors: a Vietnam POW's Story - 959.70437 J69
Berenice Nelson Jones - Kiss on My Finger - Biography J76
William A. Keleher - Memoirs, 1892-1969: a New Mexico Item - Biography K29
New Mexicans I Knew: Memoirs, 1892-1969 - Biography K29
Iris Keltz - Scrapbook of a Taos Hippie: Tribal Tales From the Heart of a Cultural Revolution - Biography Keltz
Bruce King - Cowboy in the Roundhouse: a Political Life - Biography King
Lily Klasner - My Girlhood Among Outlaws - Biography K63
J.Z. Knight - State of Mind, My Story: Ramtha: the Adventure Begins - Biography K69
Bob Knox - Growing Up to Cowboy: a Memoir of the American West - Biography Knox
Violet Kochendoerfer - Santa Fe in the Fifties: a Memoir of Change in the City Different - 978.956 Kochendoerfer
Jim Koehler - SAR: We Have a Mission - 363.34 Koehler
John Baptist Lamy - Archbishop Lamy: in His Own Words - 252 Lamy
Frieda Lawrence - Frieda Lawrence: the Memoirs and Correspondence - 823 Lawrence
Not I But the Wind - 823 L419
Tom Lea - Tom Lea: an Oral History - 813.54 Lea
Wen Ho Lee - My Country Versus Me: the First-Hand Account by the Los Alamos Scientist Who was Falsely Accused of Being a Spy Biography Lee
Left Handed - Left Handed, a Navajo Autobiography - Biography L495
Son of Old Man Hat, a Navaho Autobiography - Biography L495
Florence C. Lister - Behind Painted Walls: Incidents in Southwestern Archaeology - 979.01 Lister
Pot Luck: Adventures in Archaeology - 930.1092 Lister
Kristin Embry Litchman - Secrets of a Los Alamos Kid, 1946-1953 - j Biography Litchman
Nancy Lopez - Education of a Woman Golfer - Biography L864
Harrell & Dorothy Love - Somebody Ought to Testify - Biography Love
Joan Potter Loveless - Three Weavers - 746.14 L898
Mabel Dodge Luhan - Edge of Taos Desert - Biography L951
Movers and Shakers - Biography L951
Winter in Taos - Biography L951
Shirley MacLaine - The Camino: a Journey of the Spirit - 791.43 MacLaine
Dance While You Can - Biography M161
Dancing in the Light - Biography M161
Don't Fall Off the Mountain - Biography M161
It's All in the Playing - Biography M161
My Lucky Stars: a Hollywood Memoir - Biography MacLaine
Out on a Limb - Biography M161
You Can Get There From Here - Biography M161
Andrew MacLauchlan - The Making of a Pastry Chef: Recipes and Inspiration From America’s Best Pastry Chefs - 641.865 MacLauchlan
Susan S. Magoffin - Down the Santa Fe Trail and Into Mexico - 978.9 M211
Barbara Vogt Mallery - Bailing Wire & Gamuza: the True Story of a Family Ranch Near Ramah, New Mexico - 978.905 Mallery
Bruno Manz - A Mind In Prison: the Memoir of a Son & Soldier of the Third Reich - 943.086092 Manz
Mireille Marokvia - Immortelles: Memoir of a Will-o’-the-Wisp - 813.54 Marokvia
Alice Marriott - Valley Below - 917.89 M359
Marsha Mason - Journey: a Personal Odyssey - 791.43 Mason
Bill Mauldin - Sort of a Saga - Biography M447
Robert Mayer - Notes of a Baseball Dreamer: a Memoir - Biography Mayer
Barbara McCauley - Small Mercies - 362.283 McCauley
John McCline - Slavery in the Clover Bottoms: John McCline's Narrative of His Life During Slavery & the Civil War - Biography McCline
James A. McKenna - Black Range Tales - Biography M155
Yvette Melanson - Looking for Lost Bird: a Jewish Woman's Discovery of Her Navajo Roots - Biography Melanson
David Meriwether - My Life in the Mountains and on the Plains - Biography M563
(Emerson) Blackhorse Mitchell - Miracle Hill: the Story of a Navajo Boy - 970.3 M681
Rose Mitchell - Tall Woman: The Life Story of Rose Mitchell, a Navajo Woman, c. 1874-1977 - 979.1004 Mitchell
N. Scott Momaday - The Names - 813 M732
Way to Rainy Mountain - 398.2089974 Momaday 1976
Lucy Moore - Into the Canyon: Seven Years in Navajo Country - 305.897 Moore
Pat Mora - House of Houses - 811.54 Mora
Ty Murray - King of the Cowboys - Biography Murray
Christina Nealson - Living On the Spine: a Woman's Life in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains - 973.92 Nealson
Beaumont Newhall - Focus - Biography N548
John Nichols - An American Child Supreme: the Education of a Liberation Ecologist - 813.54 Nichols
Chris Offutt - Same River Twice: a Memoir - Biography O32
Dianna Ortiz - The Blindfold's Eyes: My Journey From Torture to Truth - Biography Ortiz
Miguel Antonio Otero - My Life on the Frontier, 1864-1882 - Biography O87
My Nine Years as Governor of the Territory of New Mexico - Biography O87
Louis Owens - I Hear the Train: Reflections, Inventions, Refractions - 813.54 Owens
David Chethlahe Paladin - Painting the Dream: the Visionary Art of Navajo Painter - 759.13 P153
Joe Pankey - Land and Cattle - 636.2 Panky
Tanner Parsons - Baseball Summer - Biography Parsons
Barbara Corn Patterson - The Rock House Ranch: My Lazy-A-Bar Days - 978.9 Corn-Patterson
Gary Paulsen - The Beet Fields: a Sixteenth Summer - 813.54 Paulsen
Eastern Sun, Winter Moon - 813 P332
Guts: the True Stories Behind Hatchet and the Brian Books - j Biography Paulsen
How Angel Peterson Got His Name - YA 813.54 Paulsen
My Life in Dog Years - j Biography Paulsen
Pilgrimage on a Steelride: a Memoir About Men & Motorcycles - 813.54 Paulsen
Winterdance: the Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod - 798.8 P332
Zero to Sixty: the Motorcycle Journey of a Lifetime - 813.54 Paulsen
Charles S. Pearce - Los Alamos Before the Bomb & Other Stories - 978.958 P359
Abe M. Peña - Memories of Cibola: Stories From New Mexico Villages- 398.2 Pena
Peace Pilgrim - Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words - Biography P355
Dorothy L. Pillsbury - Adobe Doorways - 917.89 P642 1986
No High Adobe - 917.89 Pillsbury
Roots in Adobe - 917.89 P642
Star Over Adobe - 394.269789 P642 & 394.268 Pillsbury
Oscar Pinkus - The House of Ashes - Biography Pinkus 1990
Sophie Alberding Poe - Buckboard Days - 978.9 Poe
Mary Helen Ponce - Hoyt Street: an Autobiography - 813.54 Ponce
David Poole - River’s Bend - Biography Poole
Martín Prechtel - Long Life, Honey in the Heart: a Story of Initiation & Eloquence from the Shores of a Mayan Lake - Biography Prechtel
Antoine Predock - Antoine Predock, Architect - 720.92 Predock
Grace Pritchett - The Road Goes This Way and That Way - 978.957 P961
Ralph Reynolds - Growing Up Cowboy: Confessions of a Luna Kid - Biography R464
Stephen Reynolds - Beyond the Killing Tree: a Journey of Discovery - 639.9092 Reynolds
Marion Russell - Along the Santa Fe Trail: Marion Russell’s Own Story, adapted by Ginger Wadsworth - j 978 Wadsworth
Land of Enchantment: Memoirs of Marian Russell Along the Santa Fe Trail - Biography Russell & 917.8 R965
Miriam Sagan - Dirty Laundry: 100 Days in a Zen Monastery - 294.3927 Winson
Searching for a Mustard Seed: One Young Widow's Unconventional Story - Biography Sagan
Joseph Schmedding - Cowboy and Indian Trader - 917.89 S347
Blandina Segale - At the End of the Santa Fe Trail - 917.8 Segale & Biography Segale
Jeanne Shannon - Stars Scattered Like Seeds - 808 Shannon
Frank Shorter - Olympic Gold: a Runner's Life and Times - 796.426 S559
J. Denton Simms - Cowboys, Indians, and Pulpits - Biography S592
Tillie Simion - Tillie: an American Life: an Autobiography on Tape - Biography S589
John L. Sinclair - Cowboy Riding Country - 978.9 Sinclair
Cowboy Writer in New Mexico - 813.52 Sinclair
Frank Sowers - War Is Not Our Destiny - 940.53 Sowers
Roy A. Stamm - For Me, the Sun: the Autobiography of Roy A. Stamm, an Early Albuquerque Business Leader Biography Stamm
David E. Stuart - Guaymas Chronicles - 972.17 Stuart
Alexandra Swann - No Regrets - 921 Swann
Leroy TeCube - Year in Nam: a Native American Soldier's Story - 959.704 TeCube
Barbara Thacker - How Can I Be Lost When I Don’t Know Where I’m Going? - 917.304928 Thacker
Still Going: Blissfully Lost in the Baja: Travels with Ink - 917.2204 Thacker
Since I Don't Know Where I'm Going, I'm Never Lost - 917.304 Thacker
Phyllis Hoge Thompson - The Painted Clock: Memoirs of a New Mexico Ghost Town Bride - 811.54 Thompson
John Thorndike - Another Way Home: a Single Father’s Story - 813.54 Thorndike
Nathan Howard Thorp - Along the Rio Grande: Cowboy Jack Thorp’s New Mexico - 978.9 Thorp
Reies López Tijerina - They Called Me "King Tiger": My Struggle for the Land & Our Rights - 978.952 Tijerina
Celia Ruíz Tomlison - Don't Ever Tell Me You Can't - Biography Tomlison
Eliseo "Cheo" Torres - Curandero: a Life in Mexican Folk Healing - 615.88 Torres
John Henry Tunstall - Life and Death of John Henry Tunstall - Biography T927
Sabine R. Ulibarrí - Mayhem Was Our Business = Memorias de un Veterano - Spanish 940.544973 Ulibarri
My Grandma Smoked Cigars and Other Stories of Tierra Amarilla - Spanish 863 U39
Bobby Unser - The Bobby Unser Story - Biography Unser
Winners are Driven: a Champion's Guide to Success in Business & Life - 650.1 Unser
Don J. Usner - Benigna's Chimayó: Cuentos From the Old Plaza - 398.2089 Usner
Peter Voute - Stranger in New Mexico: a Doctor's Journey, 1951-1986 - 978.9 V973
Anna Lee Walters - Talking Indian: Reflections on Survival and Writing - 813 W235
Edith Warner - In the Shadow of Los Alamos: Selected Writings of Edith Warner, edited by Patrick Burns - 978.95805 Warner
Barbara Waters - Celebrating the Coyote - 155.937 Waters
Frank Waters - Of Time and Change: a Memoir - 818.5209 Waters
John Watts - "Adios Nuevo Mexico": the Santa Fe Journal of John Watts in 1859, transcribed, edited & annotated by David Remley - 978.904 Remley
Dennis Weaver - All the World's a Stage - Biography Weaver
Melody Webb - A Woman in the Great Outdoors: Adventures in the National Park Service - Biography Webb
Victor Weisskopf - Privilege of Being a Physicist - 530 W433
Tom Wiley - Forty Years in Politics and Education - 379.789 W676
O.W. (Oscar Waldo) Williams - Pioneer Surveyor, Frontier Lawyer; the Personal Narrative of O. W. Williams, 1877-1902 - Biography Williams 1966
Waldo Williams: Artist & Chronicler of His Times In the Southwest - 709.2 Williams
Jack Williamson - Wonder's Child: My Life in Science Fiction - 813 W731
Michael A. Williamson - Trail of the Snake: from Big Bend To Baja - 597.96 W731
Vincent Younis - Shine Boys: a Story About Santa Fe - Biography Younis
Pei-Lin Yu - Hungry Lightning: Notes of a Woman Archaeologist in Venezuela - Biography Yu
Hershel Zohn - All the World's a Stage - Biography Z85
With Thanks to my friends at the Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Library System
© Suzy Sultemeier, 1983-2005