Melzer offers an impressive new book about famous New Mexico gravesites, usually the only monuments left to honor the human treasures who helped shape state, national, and often international history.

The villa de Santa Fe was founded in 1610. These burial records from 1726-1834 often include the age of the deceased and names of spouses or parents. There is an index of deceased and an index of parents, spouses, and others.

This essential volume of extracted Abiqui marriages is from a recently discovered parish register. These records have never been published or inventoried before now. Place names mentioned include Abiqui , El Rito, San Rafael, Ojo Caliente, and other nearby settlements. An index of all names is included.

Within this volume's pages, readers will find descriptions and directions to some of New Mexico's unique, sometimes controversial, cemeteries, monuments, and memorials as well as a beginner's guide to geneology. (Environmental Studies)

In this exploration of how people lived and died in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century New Mexico, Martina Will weaves together the stories of individuals and communities in this cultural crossroads of the American Southwest. The wills and burial registers at the heart of this study provide insights into the variety of ways in which death was understood by New Mexicans living in a period of profound social and political transitions. This volume addresses the model of the good death that settlers and friars brought with them to New Mexico, challenges to the model's application, and the eventual erosion of the ideal. The text also considers the effects of public health legislation that sought to protect the public welfare, as well as responses to these controversial and unpopular reforms. Will discusses both cultural continuity and regional adaptation, examining Spanish-American deathways in New Mexico during the colonial (approximately 1700–1821), Mexican (1821–1848), and early Territorial (1848–1880) periods.