New Mexico: Images of a Land and Its People

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Internationally renowned photographer Lucian Niemeyer and National Park Service historian Art G?mez have combined talents in a new presentation on New Mexico. Niemeyer’s more than 150 color photographs encompass all of the state all through the seasons presenting New Mexico’s people, cultures, and magnificent scenery at the millennium. G?mez’s sweeping history views the state in relation to corridors, geographic in addition to cultural. New Mexico’s mountains, deserts, and rivers form natural corridors that migrating birds and animals have traditionally used for survival. Navigating these same corridors across the state, human cultures of Paleo, Plains and Pueblo Indians, Hispanos, and Anglos forged viable communities at the astringent New Mexican landscape.

Pueblo ancestors migrated from austere environments all through the Southwest to more inviting surroundings at the Rio Grande. Plains Indians from the north and Hispano tradesmen from the south converged by means of the Camino Real. American settlers migrated west along the Santa Fe Trail, the southernmost corridor across the formidable Rocky Mountains. Improved transportation such as the railroad and later Route 66, precursors to the interstate highway system, once a year lured new inhabitants to this compelling land referred to as New Mexico.

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