The Jemez Mountains

Preface
Acknowledgments

PART I. STORIES FROM PAST CENTURIES
Chapter 1. The Hemish Footprint and Spanish Entrada
Chapter 2. San José de los Jémez Mission
Chapter 3. Pueblo Revolts and Battles of Reconquest
Chapter 4. Treasures of the Spanish Queen Mine
Chapter 5. Hillers and the Stevensons in the Jemez
Chapter 6. Myths and Legends of Montezuma in New Mexico
Chapter 7. A Visit to the Valles in 1886
Chapter 8. John Wesley Powell’s Jemez Dam Dreams
Chapter 9. Dry Goods, Saloons, and Sheep
Chapter 10. First Automobile in Jemez Springs
Chapter 11. Whose Lands Are the Jemez Mountains?
Chapter 12. The Santa Fe Northwestern Railroad
Chapter 13. The Jemez National Forest
Chapter 14. Peeled Ponderosa Pines
Chapter 15. Four Jemez Mountains Grizzly Bear Stories

PART II. STORIES FROM RICHARD BAXTER TOWNSHEND
Chapter 16. Wild West Days of the Jemez Valley
Chapter 17. Penitentes in the Jemez Valley
Chapter 18. Correr El Gallo at Walatowa
Chapter 19. Presbyterians in the Jemez
Chapter 20. A Visit to the Rio Cebolla in 1903
Chapter 21. Horse Logging Above Jemez Springs

PART III. SODA DAM, GEOLOGY, AND FLOODS
Chapter 22. Soda Dam, Logs, and Floods
Chapter 23. The Many Soda Dams and Lakes of the Valles Caldera
Chapter 24. The Blasting of Soda Dam
Chapter 25. The Caves of Soda Dam
Chapter 26. The Explosion Craters of Banco Bonito
Chapter 27. Great Floods of the Rio Jemez
Chapter 28. Fossils in the Jemez

PART IV. FIRE, FORESTS, AND COTTONWOODS
Chapter 29. Forests and People on the Southern Jemez Plateau
Chapter 30. The Era of Runaway Wildfires
Chapter 31. Bald Mountains in the Jemez
Chapter 32. Cerro Pelado Fire and Using All the Tools
Chapter 33. Cottonwoods and Junipers in the Valley
Chapter 34. Climate Change in the Jemez

PART V. HOTELS, HOT SPRINGS, HIPPIES, CAMPERS, AND PRIESTS
Chapter 35. Hotels, Mines, and The Sulphurs
Chapter 36. The Many Camps at Battleship Rock
Chapter 37. Turkeys in the Jemez
Chapter 38. Servants of the Paraclete
Chapter 39. Hippies and Hot Springs in the Jemez
Chapter 40. Sierra de los Valles

Notes
References
List of Photo and Illustration Credits
Index