The Latest from New West ABQ/Santa Fe

Freak on Peak Speaks: Philip Connors' 'Fire Season'

Philip Connors has spent eight seasons in a high, isolated outpost as a wilderness lookout in the Gila Wilderness of New Mexico, the "epicenter of American wildfire," spotting fires for t ...

How a New Mexico Find Revolutionized Archaeology

Although little visited, it was near this town in a valley of pine-covered volcanic buttes near the border of New Mexico and Colorado, that sensational discoveries were made in the last century. Th ...

Orlando White Explores Navajo Identity Through Language in Innovative "Bone Light"

Bone Light

by Orlando White

Red Hen Press, 64 pages, $15.95

When I heard the title of Orlando White's first book of poetry, Bone Light, and learned that White was a Navajo poe ...

Famous Indian Artists Charm in Eddie Chuculate's "Cheyenne Madonna"

In one story in Cheyenne Madonna, Eddie Chuculate's wry and winning debut collection, Jordan Coolwater, the Creek/Cherokee protagonist of the book, sits with his girlfriend in Santa Fe's plaza, sel ...

2011 Western Book Preview

In this week's Roundup I'll take a look at some books of special interest to Western readers that will be published during the first half of this year:

January

• Kings of Colorado, ...