". . . an unexpected, absorbing, and illuminating discourse about New Mexico's deathways."—Santa Fe New Mexican
"A good resource for understanding death customs and their residual social and landscape expressions."—Choice Magazine
"Death and Dying in New Mexico . . . leads the reader through a fascinating exploration of burial registers, wills, and court records that reveal the model of a 'good death' in 18th- and 19th-century New Mexico."—Texas Books in Review
"This book is an excellent study that should be useful to many audiences. It is well researched, engagingly written, and full of interesting detail and anecdote."—Western Historical Quarterly
"Martina Will's admirable study....will interest scholars and students of colonial Latin America, the Southwest, and popular religion."—Hispanic American Historical Review