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TURQUOISE MINING HISTORY

SOURCES & REFERENCES

A note to the reader: This file is the list of references cited in the text of
Turquoise Mining History, by Homer Milford and
History of the Los Cerrillos Mining Area, by Homer Milford


Abandoned Mine Land Bureau

1994   Cultural Resource Survey for the Real de los Cerrillos Project. Abandoned Mine Land Bureau, New Mexico Mining and Minerals Division, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Acosta, Padre Jose de

1590  :  Historia natural y moral de las Indias, Sevilla. Partial translation of Libro IV, Cap. XII by Sanchez Flores, 1994.

A.G.N

Archivo General de la Nacion, Mexico City (microfilm copy at University of New Mexico).

Agricola, Georgius (a.k.a. Georgius Bauer)

1950 [1556]  De Re Metallica. Translated by Herbert Clark and Lou Henry Hoover (1912). Reprint by Dover Publications Inc., New York.

AHP

1684   Folio 1684D, Archivo de Hidalgo del Parral (Chihuahua), Mexico.

Akright, Robert

1979   "Geology and Mineralogy of the Cerrillos Copper Deposit, Santa Fe County, NM." New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook, 30th Field Conference, Santa Fe County.

Alvarez, Manuel

circa 1840  Distancia de Santa Fe a Chihuahua. Alvarez Papers, 1839-1845, New Mexico State Record Center and Archives.

AML

1994    Abandoned Mine Land Bureau Report No. 1994-1, Cultural Resource Survey of Turquoise Hill, Santa Fe County, New Mexico. Mike E. Swick and Homer E. Milford, Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department, Santa Fe.

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Archivo General de Indias. Sevilla, Spain.

Arny, W.F.M., Acting Governor of New Mexico

1873   Interesting Items Regarding New Mexico: Its Agricultural, Pastoral and Mineral Resources. Manderfield & Tucker Printers, Santa Fe.

Arrowsmith, Rex

1986   "Turquois" by Pogue reprint, Rio Grande Press, Glorieta.

Atwood, Sam

1986    "Turquoise" The New Mexican, March 2, 1986, section D, pp. 1-2.

Ayer, Mrs. Edward E.

1916    The Memorial of Fray Alonso de Benavidez 1630. Annotated by Frederick Webb Hodge and Charles Fletcher Lummis. Private printing by Donnelley and Sons, Chicago.

Bailey, Jessie Bromilow

1940    Diego de Vargas and the Reconquest of New Mexico. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.

Bakewell, Peter J.

1971    Silver Mining and Society in Colonial Mexico, Zacatecas 1546-1700. Cambridge Univ. Press.

Bakewell, Peter J.

1988   Silver and Entrepreneurship in Seventeenth Century Potosi: The Life and Times of Antonio Lopez de Quiroga. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.

Bancroft, Hubert, H.

1889    History of Arizona and New Mexico, 1530-1888. The History Company, San Francisco.

Bandelier, Adolphe F.

1890    Final Report of Investigations Among the Indians of the Southwestern United States in the Years 1880-1885. Vol. I, John Wilson and Son, Cambridge.

Bandelier, Adolphe F.

1892    Final Report of Investigations Among the Indians of the Southwestern United States in the years 1880-1885. Vol. II, John Wilson and Son, Cambridge.

Becker, Beverly

1994    "Around the Plaza." El Palacio, vol. 100, no. 1, Winter 1994-95, pp. 14-16.

Beerman, Eric

1979    "The Death of an Old Conquistador, New Light on Juan de Oñate." New Mexico Historical Review, vol. 54, pp. 305-319.

Bennett, James A.

1948   A Dragoon in New Mexico 1850-1856. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.

Berger, Wm. M.

1883   Berger's Tourists' Guide to New Mexico. Publishing House of Ramsey, Millett & Hudson, Kansas City, MO.

Bice, Richard

1993  Personal communication on progress of the write up of the Bethsheba Mine excavations by Albuquerque Archaeological Society.

Bishop, Ronald L.

1979   Neutron Cativation Analysis of Chacoan Turquoises: An Informal Report to the Division of Chaco Research. Report from the Department of Chemistry, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY.

Blake, W.P.

1858   The Chalchihuitl of the Ancient Mexicans, Its Locality and Association, and Its Identity With Turquoise. American Journal of Science, 2nd Ser., Vol. 25, pp. 227-232.

Bolton, Herbert Eugene

1913   Guide to materials for the History of the United States in the Principal Archives of Mexico. Washington, D.C.

Bolton, Herbert E.

1930    Spanish Exploration in the Southwest, 1542-1706. Charles Scribner's and Sons, New York.

Boyd, E.

1974    Popular Arts of Spanish New Mexico, Museum of New Mexico Press, Santa Fe.

Brading, D. A. & Harry E. Cross

1972    "Colonial Silver Mining: Mexico and Peru." Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 52, no. 4, pp. 545-579.

Bullock, Alice

1972    Living Legends of the Santa Fe Country. Sunstone Press, Santa Fe.

Byrne, Verne

no date   Little Black Book, journal of Vern Byrne a Cerrillos area resident and miner, step-son of Michael O'Neil. Mining entries for about 1940 to late 1950s. New Mexico Bureau of Mining and Mineral Resources, Socorro.

Byrne, Verne

1957   No. 4326, Abstract of Title to Mina del Tiro, (NE1/4NE1/4 of Section 7, and west 1/2 of NW1/4 of NE1/4NE1/4 of Section 8 of T14N, R8E); Nick of Time Lode (MS 533; Wallen Group (MS 1151); Blue Bell Lode (MS 1228); Tom Moore Lode (MS 1932). June 14, 1957, prepared for Verne Byrne, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Avery-Bowman Company.

C., E.

1957    Memo to C.R.S., Haile Mines, Inc. Preliminary geologic notes: lead-zinc mines of the Cerrillos District, Santa Fe County, New Mexico, June 21, 1957, New Mexico Bureau of Mining and Mineral Resources.

Carroll, H. Bailey, & J. Villasana Haggard

1942    Three New Mexico Chronicles, Quivira Society Publications XI, Albuquerque.

Castaneda, Carlos Eduardo

1935    History of Texas, 1673-1779 by Fray Juan Augustin Morfi. The Quivira Society, Albuquerque.

Cerrillos Mining District Record Books

1879-86    Manuscript, nine volumes of meeting records, claim filings and proof of labor for Cerrillos and Galisteo Mining Districts. Private collection.

Chavez, Fray Angelico

1950    "Aztec or Nahuatl Words in New Mexico Place Names." El Palacio, vol. 57, April, pp. 109-112l.

Chavez, Fray Angelico

1973   Origins of New Mexico Families. The University of Albuquerque in collaboration with Calvin Horn Publisher, Albuquerque.

Christiansen, Page

1974    The Story of Mining in New Mexico. Scenic Trips to the Geological Past, No. 12, New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro.

Clarke, Frank W. and J.S. Diller

1886    Turquoise from New Mexico. American Journal of Science, XXXII (vol 32). pp. 111-217.

CMDRB

1879-1889   Cerrillos Mining District Record Books, 7 volumes, private collection.

Cordell, Linda S.

1984    Prehistory of The Southwest. Academic Press Inc., Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Pub., New York.

Cowan, John L.

1911   Turquoise Mines of New Mexico, Mining and Scientific Press, July 29, 1911, pp. 130-131.

Davis, W.W.H.

1857/1938    El Gringo: or New Mexico and Her People. The 1962 reprint of the Rydal Press. 1938 edition by Rio Grande Press, Inc., Chicago. First printed 1857.

De Aguero, Joe

1991    Plants, New Mexico Coal Mine Reclamation Bureau, Santa Fe.

De Aguero, Joe

1992    Plants for Surface Coal Mining Reclamation. New Mexico Coal Mine Reclamation Bureau, Santa Fe.

Dike, Sheldon H.

1958    The Territorial Post Offices of New Mexico. Dikewood Corporation, Albuquerque.

Director of the Mint

1882    Report of the Director of the Mint. Precious Metals in the United States, Production of the States and Territories, For the Years 1880 and 1881, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883.

Director of the Mint

1883    Report of the Director of the Mint. Precious Metals in the United States, Production of the States and Territories, For the Year 1882, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883.

Dickson, D. Bruce Jr.

1979    Prehistoric Pueblo Settlement Patterns: The Arroyo Hondo New Mexico Site Survey. School of American Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Disbrow, Alan E. & Walter C. Stoll

1957    Geology of the Cerrillos Area, Santa Fe County, New Mexico. New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Bulletin 48, Socorro.

Duran, Melih S. and David T. Kirkpatrick

1992    Archaeology, Art, and Anthropology: Papers in Honor of J.J. Brody, The Archaeology Society of New Mexico: 18.

Elkins, Stephen B.

1879    Catalogue of the Steven B. Elkins Papers Relating to New Mexico. Manuscript, index to Elkins collection by Homer E. Milford, 1993. Rio Grande Historical Collection, New Mexico State University Library, Las Cruces.

Ellis, R.W.

1929    New Mexico Mineral Deposits Except Fuels. Bulletin 167, December 1929, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.

Elston, Wolfgang E.

1967    Summary of the Mineral Resources of Bernalillo, Sandoval, and Santa Fe Counties, New Mexico. Bulletin 81, State Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro.

Espinosa, J. Manuel

1942    Crusaders of the Rio Grande. Institute of Jesuit History, Chicago.

Eveleth, Robert

1990    Personal communication.

Felt, George L.

1910    Letter to W.G. Swart of January 20, 1910. Filed Under Gus L. Felt, Subject: Bottom Dollar, University of Missouri Western Historical Manuscript Collection -- Rolla.

Fenderson, W.C.

1897    Turquoise Mining in New Mexico. Mining and Scientific Press, v. 74, p. 192.

Ferris, Robert G., ed.

1967    Prospector, Cowhand, and Sodbuster - Historic Places Associated with the Mining, Ranching, and Farming Frontiers in the Trans-Mississippi West. Vol. XI, The National Survey of Historic Sites and Buildings, U.S. Department of Interior, National Park Service, Washington, D.C.

Fierman, Floyd S.

1964    "The Spiegelbergs of New Mexico: Merchants and Bankers 1844-1893." Southwestern Studies, vol. 1, no. 4, Winter, Texas Western College Press, El Paso.

Finlay, J.R.

1921-1922    Report of Appraisal of Mining Property of New Mexico. State Tax Commission, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Fitch, Gregory J.

1995    Personal communication.

Gabin, Vickie L. & Lesperance

1977    New Mexico Climatological Data: Precipitation, Temperature, Evaporation, And Wind Monthly And Annual Means 1850-1975. W.K. Summers and Associates, Socorro, New Mexico.

Genth, Frederick Augustus

1890    Gold in Turquoise from Cerrillos, New Mexico. American Journal of Science, XL (vol. 40), p. 115.

Gerhard, Peter

1993    The Northern Frontier of New Spain (Revised Edition). University of Oklahoma Press, Norman and London.

GMDR

1979-1881   Galisteo Mining District Record Book, private collection.

Gomez de Cervantes, Gonzalo

1944 [1599]   La vida economica y social de la Nueva España al finalizar el siglo XVI. Mexico City, pp. 155-161, also reprinted in 1969 by Antigua Libreria Robredo and partially translated by Sanchez-Flores (1994), Mexico City.

Goodman, Linda & Daisy Levine

1990    "Mines of Cerrillos." El Palacio, Fall 1990, vol. 96, no. 1. An abbreviated form of Levine and Goodman, 1990 report for AML on the Cerrillos Mining District.

Gregg, Josiah

1933 [1844]   Commerce of the Prairies. Southwestern Press, Dallas.

Grigg, P.S. & W.M. Sundt

1975    A Progress Report on the Archaeological Excavation of the Bethsheba Mine. Albuquerque Archaeological Society, Albuquerque, 5 pages.

Gurule, B. F.

1994    Personal communication regarding papers of his grandfather, Jose H. Gurule. His grandfather collected early documents on the San Antonio de las Huertas Grant (Placitas) area in the 1800s to secure approval of the land grant.

Gustafson, Willam G.

1965    Geology of Copper-Lead-Zinc-Turquoise Deposits, Southern Part of the Cerrillos Mining District, Santa Fe County, New Mexico. M.S. Thesis, University of New Mexico.

Hackett, Charles Wilson

1937    Historical Documents Relating to New Mexico, Nueva Viscaya, and Approaches Thereto, to 1773. Volume 3, Collected by Adolph F.A. Bandelier and Fanny R. Bandelier, vol. III, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D.C.

Hackett, Charles Wilson & Shelby

1942    Revolt of the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico and Otermin's Attempted Reconquest, 1680-1682. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.

Halse, Edward

1908   A Dictionary of Spanish and Spanish-American Mining, Metallurgical and Allied Terms. Charles Griffin & Co., London.

Hammond, George P.

1926    "Oñate and the Founding of New Mexico, III." New Mexico Historical Review, vol. I, no. 3, July, pp. 292-323.

Hammond, George P.

1927    Don Juan de Oñate and the Founding of New Mexico. Historical Society of New Mexico, El Palacio Press, Santa Fe.

Hammond, George P. & Agapito Rey

1927    The Gallegos Relation of the Rodriguez Expedition to New Mexico. Publications in History, IV, (December), Historical Society of New Mexico.

Hammond, George P. & Agapito Rey

1927    "The Gallegos Relation of the Rodriguez-Chamuscado Expedition to New Mexico." New Mexico Historical Review, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 334-362.

Hammond, George P. & Agapito Rey

1929    Expedition into New Mexico made by Antonio de Espejo 1582-1583, as revealed in the journal of Diego Perez de Luxan, a member of the party. Quivira Society, Los Angeles.

Hammond, George P. & Agapito Rey

1953    Don Juan de Oñate Colonizer of New Mexico, 1595-1628. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.

Harbottle, Garman and Phil C. Weigand

1987    Report on Neutron Activation Analysis of Turquoise Artifacts and Numerical Taxonomy Based on the Chemical Analytical Profiles. In The Archaeology of the San Xavier Bridge Site ( AZ BB:13:14) Tucson Basin, Southern Arizona, edited by John C. Ravesloot, pp. 437442. Arizona State Museum Archaeological Series, No. 171. Part 3. Tucson

Harbottle, Garman and Phil C. Weigand

1992    Turquoise in Pre-Columbian America. Scientific American, February 1992. pp. 78-85.

Harrington, John P.

1916   The Ethnogeography of the Tewa Indians. Twenty-Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1907-1908. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.

Hayward, J. Lyman

1880   The Los Cerrillos Mines and Their Mineral Resources. J.C. Clark Printing Co., South Framingham, Mass.

Hendricks, Rick

1993    "Pedro Rodriguez Cubero: New Mexico's Reluctant Governor, 1697-1703." New Mexico Historic Review, vol. 68, no. 1, pp. 13-39, Albuquerque.

Hendricks, Rick

1994    Personal communication.

Hibben, Frank C., Ben Benjamin & Mildred S. Adler

1985    Comanche Springs. The Artifact, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 41-78.

Hibben, Frank C., Ben Benjamin & Mildred S. Adler

1985    "The Spanish Period at Comanche Springs, New Mexico: A Silver Assaying Station of the Early Seventeenth Century." The Artifact, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 41-78, El Paso.

Hodge, Frederick Webb

1916    "Annotations in Mrs. Edward E. Ayers, 1916." The Memorial of Fray Alonso de Benavides 1630. Private printing by Donnelley and Sons, Chicago.

Hodge, Frederick Webb, George P. Hammond, & Agapito Rey

1945    Fray Alonso de Benavides' Revised Memorial of 1634. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.

Horvath, Steven M. Jr.

1977    The Genizaro in Eighteenth-Century New Mexico: A Reexamination. Discovery, vol. 12, pp. 25-40. School of American Research, Santa Fe.

Howard, E. Viet

1967    Metalliferous Occurrences in New Mexico. State Planning Office, Santa Fe.

Hoyo, Eugenio del & Malcolm D. McLean, eds.

1967    Noticias Geograficas e Historicas del Noreste de Mexico. Publicaciones Del Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Serie: Historia, no. 5, Monterrey.

Humboldt, Alexandre von

1811    Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain. I. Riley, New York. 2 vol.

Hurlbut, Cornelius S. Jr.

1979    Dana's Manual of Minerology. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York.

Hyde, D.C.

1880    Grand Reserve Consolidated Gold and Silver Mining Company, New York. [A copy was not located. However, Hyde, who was the local manager for the company, digging of the shafts at Mount Chalchihuitl is referenced by Townley (1967, p. 107). It is also included in Arrowsmith's Bibliography in the Pogue 1972 reprint.]

Hyde, D.C.

no date    Mount Chalchihuitl; description of property and mines of the Turquoise Gold and Silver Mining Company, Los Cerrillos, Santa Fe County, New Mexico, 15p., 1 fig. Northrop (1959, p. 631) added the note (promotional brochure published apparently between 1880 and 1890).

Irwin-Williams, Cynthia

1973    The Oshara Tradition: Origins Of Anasazi Culture. Eastern New Mexico University Contributions to Anthropology, Vol. 5, No. 1 Portales.

Johnson, D.W.

1904    The Geology of the Cerrillos Hills, New Mexico. New Era Printing Co., Lancaster.

Jones, Fayette A.

1904   New Mexico Mines and Minerals. New Mexico Printing Co., Santa Fe.

Jones, Fayette A.

1909    History of Mining of Turquoise in The Southwest. The Mining World, vol. 31, no. 26, pp. 1251-1252, Dec. 25, 1909.

Judd, Neil M.

1954    The Material Culture of Pueblo Bonito. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, vol. 124.

Karklins, Karlis, associate ed.

1971    "Mining Site Salvage." Society for Historical Archaeology Newsletter, volume 4, number 3 (October), Ottawa.

Karklins, Karlis, associate ed.

1972    "Spanish Colonial Lead Mine." Society for Historical Archaeology Newsletter, volume 5, number 2 (June), Ottawa.

Kemp, Capt. Donald C.

1972   Quicksilver to Bar Silver; Tales of Mexico's Silver Bonanzas. Socio-Technical Publications, Pasedena.

Kessel, John L.

1979    Kiva, Cross and Crown. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.

Kessell, John L.

1989    Remote Beyond Compare. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.

Kessell, John L.

1993    Personal communication.

Kessell, John L. & Rick Hendricks

1992    By Force of Arms: The Journals of Don Diego de Vargas, New Mexico, 1691-93. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.

King, David W., Myra Ellen Jenkins, et al.

1973    The Historical Preservation Program for New Mexico. Volume II: The Inventory. State Planning Office, Santa Fe.

Kinnaird, Lawrence

1958    The Frontiers of New Spain, Nicholas de Lafora's Description, 1766-1768. University of California Press, Berkeley.

Kraemer, Paul

1993    "Haciendas and Hispanic Society in Seventeenth-Century New Mexico." Compadres, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 4-8.

Kraemer, Paul

1994   Personal communication.

Lakes, Arthur

1901    The Turquoise Mines. Mines and Minerals, vol. 21, pp. 395-396.

Lang, Charles H., Carroll L. Riley & Elizabeth M. Lang

1966   The Southwestern Journals of Adolph F. Bandelier for 1880-1882. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.

Lang, Charles H., Carroll L. Riley & Elizabeth M. Lang

1975    The Southwestern Journals of Adolph F. Bandelier for 1885-1888. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.

Lang, Charles H., Carroll L. Riley & Elizabeth M. Lang

1984    The Southwestern Journals of Adolph F. Bandelier for 1889-1892. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.

Levine, Daisy F. & Linda J. Goodman

1990    An Archaeological and Ethnographic Survey within the Cerrillos Mining District, Santa Fe County, New Mexico. Museum of New Mexico, Office of Archaeological Studies, Notes 508, Santa Fe.

Lindgren, W., L.C. Graton & C.H. Gordon

1910    The Ore Deposits of New Mexico. U.S.G.S. Prof. Paper 68. Government Printing Office, Washington.

Macomb, J.N.

1876   Report of the Exploring Expedition from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to the Junction of the Grand and Green Rivers of the Great Colorado of the West, in 1859. Capt. J.N. Macomb, Engineering Department, U.S. Army, Government Printing Office, Washington (with Geological Report by Prof. J.S. Newberry, Geologist of the Expedition).

Marshall, Michael P.

1991    El Camino Real De Tierra Adentro, An Archaeological Investigation. The 1990 New Mexico Historic Preservation Division Survey, Santa Fe.

Mathien, F.J.

1987    Prehistoric and Historic Mines at Turquoise Hill, Los Cerrillos, New Mexico. Paper presented at the 60th Pecos Conference, Pecos, New Mexico.

Mathien, Frances Joan and Bart Olinger

1992    An Experiment with X-Ray Flourescence to Determine Trace Element Variability in Turquoise Composition, in "Archaeology, Art, and Anthropology: Papers in Honor of J.J. Brody." Edited by Melih S. Duran and David T. Krikpatrick, The Archaology Society of New Mexico: 18, pp. 123-134.

Mathien, Frances Joan

1993    Exchange Systems and Social Stratification among the Chaco Anasazi. Chapter 2 in The American Southwest and Mesoamerica, edited by Jonathan E. Ericson and Timothy G. Baugh, Plenum Press, New York and London.

Mathien, Frances Joan

1994    Personal Communication.

McCraw, Patricia

1993    Personal Communication.

McCraw, Patricia

1994    Personal Communication.

Mecham, J. Lloyd

1927    Francisco de Ibarra and Nueva Vizcaya. Duke University Press, Durham.

Mera, M.P.

1940    Population Changes in the Rio Grande Glaze-Paint Area. Technical Series, Bulletin 9, Laboratory of Anthropology, Santa Fe.

Milford, Homer E.

1991    Environmental Assessment, Peñasco Project. Abandoned Mine Land Bureau, Mining and Minerals Division, Santa Fe.

Milford, Homer E.

1995    "Mining History of the Cunningham Deposit and Ortiz Mine Grant, Santa Fe County, New Mexico." Geology of the Santa Fe Region, New Mexico Geological Society, Socorro.

Milich, Alicia R.

1966    Relaciones by Zarate Salmeron. Horn and Wallace, Albuquerque.

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Mineral Data Archives, New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro.

Moorhead, Max L.

1958    New Mexico's Royal Road; Trade and Travel on the Chihuahua Trail. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman.

Morfi, Juan Augustin

1782    "Descripcion Geographica Del Nuevo Mexico año de 1782." Unpublished manuscript in Juan Philipe Bauza Collection of the British Library, No. 17,563, old folio pp. 71-94, translation by Alfred Barneby Thomas, [Forgotten Frontiers, 1932, U. of Oklahoma. Gerhard (1993) reported a publication of it without giving the publisher as "Mexico, 1947."] There are numerous marginal notes on this copy and Thomas only reported a few of them. The notes are in a different hand than the main document and are not Morfi's. They may be Bauza's who was planning to write a history of the Spanish New World.

MRUS

1882-1920    Mineral Resources of the United States. U.S. Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington. (All cites are referenced this way even though annual production reports were combined into the Annual Report of USGS during some years.)

Nelson, N.C.

1914   Pueblo Ruins of the Galisteo Basin, New Mexico. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, vol. 15, part 1, New York.

Nelson, N.C.

1916(a)   "New Mexico Field Work in 1915." El Palacio, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 43-55, Santa Fe.

Nelson, N.C.

1916(b)   "Chronology of the Tano Ruins, New Mexico." American Anthropologist, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 159-180.

New Mexican

1883   "Old Spanish Shaft." Santa Fe Daily New Mexican, February 14, 1883, p. 4, col. 2.

New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources

various dates   Bottom Dollar Mine file. New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro.

Northrop, Stuart A.

1959   Minerals of New Mexico. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.

Ortega, Melquiades Antonio

1831   Registro Oficial, May 9 and October 15-17, 1831, Mexico City. May 9th translated by R. A. Potash in New Mexico Historical Review, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 136-140, 1949.

Pearce, S. Grove, Becky J. Barnett, and Sandra J. Hansen

1975    New Mexico Newspapers: A Comprehensive Guide to Bibliographical Entries and Locations. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.

Pogue, Joseph E.

1915/1974    Turquois. Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XII, Part II, reprinted in 1974 with introduction by Rex Arrowsmith, Rio Grande Press, Inc., Glorieta.

Potash, Robert A.

1983   Mexican Government and Industrial Development in the Early Republic: The Banco de Avio, University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst.

Powell, Philip Wayne

1952    Soldiers, Indians & Silver: The Northward Advance of New Spain, 1550-1600. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles.

Priddy, Holt

1971    Golden - The Placer That Dried Up. pp. 6-7, Enchantment Magazine, February 1971. Santa Fe.

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1893   Prince Papers, New Mexico Record Center and Archives, Santa Fe.

Probert, Alan

1969    "Bartolome de Medina: The Patio Process and the Sixteenth Century Silver Crisis." Journal of the West, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 90-124.

Probert, Alan

1971    "A Lost Art Rediscovered: Primitive Smelting in Central America." Journal of the West, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 116-128.

Raunheim, S.E.

1891    "Santa Fe, New Mexico." Engineering and Mining Journal, vol. 51, pp. 654-655.

Raymond, Rossiter W.

1870   Statistics of Mines and Mining in the United States and Territories West of the Rocky Mountains. Government Printing Office, Washington.

Raymond, Rossiter W.

1874    Statistics of Mines and Mining in the United States and Territories West of the Rocky Mountains. Government Printing Office, Washington.

Ritch, W.G.

no date   Manuscript RI, 1, Translation of 1685 Avalos Mine Grant. Huntington Library.

Ritch, W.G.

1885    "Aztlan." The History, Resources and Attractions of New Mexico (Sixth Edition; probably the first edition as no previous edition has ever been found). D. Lothrop & Co., Boston.

Ronzio, A.R. and M.L. Salmon

1967    Relation Between Sources and Composition of Turquoise. Journal of the Colorado-Wyoming Academy of Science, vol. 5, p. 30-.

Rupert, Hans

1982    Zur Verbreitung und Herkunft von Turkis und Sodalith in prakolumbischen Kulturen der Kordilleren. Aaessler-Archiv, Neue Folge, vol. 30, pp. 69-124.

Rupert, Hans

1983    Geochemische Untersuchunger an Turkis und Sodalith aus Lagerstatten und prakolumbischen Kuturen der Kordilleren. Berliner Beitrage zur Archaometrie, vol. 8, pp. 101-210.

Salmon, M. and A.R. Ronzio

1962    The X-ray Fluorescence Analysis of Turquoise. Journal of the Colorado-Wyoming Academy of Science, vol. 5, p. 19-.

Sanchez-Flores, Ramon

1994    "Technology of Mining in Colonial Mexico: Installations, Tools, Artifacts and Machines Used in the Patio Process, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries." In Quest of Mineral Wealth, edited by Alan K. Craig and Robert C. West, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.

SANM

Spanish Archives of New Mexico, Land Office Records, New Mexico Records Center and Archives, Santa Fe. Original Spanish documents on land titles. (Also translations by Work Progress Administration).

Scholes, France V.

1936    "Church and State in New Mexico, 1610-1650." New Mexico Historical Review, vol. 11, pp. 35-38.

Scholes, France V.

1944    "Juan Martinez de Montoya, Settler and Conquistador of New Mexico." New Mexico Historical Review, vol. 19, pp. 337-342.

Schroeder, Albert Henry

1976    A History of the Area Along the Eastern Line of the Santo Domingo Aboriginal Title Area, the Basis for Santo Domingo Pueblo's Claim to the Turquoise Mine Area. Prepared for U.S. Department of Justice, August 1976, by Florence Hawley Ellis and Albert Henry Schroeder.

Schroeder, Albert Henry

1977(a)   "The Cerrillos Mining Area." La Gazeta, El Corral de Santa Fe Westerners, vol. VI, pp. 21-34. (Republished 1979, New Mexico Geographical Society Special Publication No. 8. Socorro.)

Schroeder, Albert Henry

1977(b)   "The basis for Santo Domingo Pueblo's claim to the Turquoise Mine Area." Comments on plaintiffs' exhibit 1. See Florence Hawley Ellis in Schroeder.

Schroeder, Albert H.

1979   The Cerrillos Mining Area. New Mexico Geological Society Special Publication No. 8, Socorro.

Schroeder, Albert H. & Dan S. Matson

1965    A Colony on the Move; Gaspar Castaño de Sosa's Journal 1590-91. School of American Research, Santa Fe.

Sena vs. American Turquoise Company

1905    District Court, Catron Papers, University of New Mexico.

SGR, Surveyor General Report

1782    No. 64, Mesita de Juana Lopez Grant, New Mexico State Records Center and Archives.

SGR, Surveyor General Report

1788    No. 59, Los Cerrillos Grant, (PLC #78) New Mexico State Records Center and Archives.

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1788    No. 229, Sitio de Los Cerrillos Grant, (PLC #79) New Mexico State Records Center and Archives.

SGR, Surveyor General Report

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Sigleo, Anne C.

1970    Trace Element Geochemistry in Southwestern Turquoise, M.S. Thesis, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.

Sigleo, Anne C.

1975    Turquoise Mine and Artifact Correlation for Snaketown Site, Arizona. Science, Vol. 189, pp. 459-460.

Silliman, Benjamin Jr.

1876    Testimony in "Emma Mines Investigations, " House of Representatives Report, no. 579, 44th Congress, 1st Session ( 1875-76), p. 126, (quoted in Spence, 1970, p. 133).

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1880a    The Turquoise of New Mexico. Science, I, p. 289.

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1880b    Turquoise of New Mexico. American Association for the Advancement of Science, Proceedings, vol. 29, p. 431-435.

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1881a    Turquoise of New Mexico. American Journal of Science, 22, Third Series, pp. 67-71. Abstracts of this article were printed in three other journals. Zeitschr. Kryst. und Min., vol 6, 1882, p. 519; Neues Jahrb. Min. Geol. und Pal., vol. 1, 1883, p. 27; Journal of Chemical Society, vol. 44, 1883, p. 431.

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1881b    Turquoise of New Mexico. The Engineering and Mining Journal, vol. 32, p. 169.

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1882    Report on the Newly Discovered Auriferous Gravels of the Upper Rio Grande in the Counties of Taos and Rio Arriba, New Mexico. Omaha. (Copy at Museum of New Mexico History Library.)

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1964    "Tlascalans in the Spanish Borderlands." New Mexico Historical Review, vol. 39, pp. 101-110.

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1969    Settlement Patterns and Village Plans in Colonial New Mexico, Journal of the West, 8, pp. 7-21. Reprinted in New Spain's Far Northern Frontier, edited by David J. Weber, SMU Press, 1989.

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1977    Father Juan Augustin Morfi's Account of Disorders in New Mexico, 1778. Printed by Rev. James T. Burke, Isleta Pueblo.

Simmons, Marc

1991    The Last Conquistador; Juan de Oñate and the Settling of the Far Southwest. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman.

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1970/1993  Mining Engineers and the American West; The Lace-Boot Brigade, 1849-1933. Yale University Press, reprinted by University of Idaho Press, Moscow.

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1910    Letter to W.G. Swart of January 19, 1910 and assay report. Filed Under: B.A. Statz; Subject: Bottom Dollar, University of Missouri Western Historical Manuscript Collection -- Rolla.

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1912    Mineral Resources of the United States. U.S. Geological Survey, Part I, pp. 1055-1056.

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1881    Geological Examination in Southern Colorado and Northern New Mexico, During the Years 1878 and 1879. Volume III-Supplement-Geology, United States Geographical Surveys, West of the One Hundredth Meridian. Government Printing Office, Washington.

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1973   "Progress Report on AS-5, The Excavation of a Primitive Indian Lead Mine." Awanyu, vol. 1:4 , December 1, 1973.

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1932    Forgotten Frontiers: A Study of the Spanish Indian Policy of Don Juan Bautista de Anza Governor of New Mexico, 1777-1778. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman.

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1953    Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Carboniferous Rocks of the Placitas Region, Northern Sandia Mountains, Sandoval County, New Mexico. M.S. Thesis. University of New Mexico. Albuquerque.

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1971    "El Placer: A New Mexico Mining Boom Before 1846." Journal of the West, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 102-115.

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1962    Documentos Para Servir a La Historia del Nuevo Mexico 1538-1778. Coleccion Chimalistac, De Libros Y Documento Acerca De La Nueva España, 13, Madrid.

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unknown

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War Department

1859    Map of "Territory and Military Department of New Mexico," Bureau of Topographic Engineers of the War Department.

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1956   Letter of August 13, 1956 to W.E. Scorah, Western Development Company, Santa Fe, from Shattuck Denn Mining Corp. regarding Cerrillos Mining Property. New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources.

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1979    Indian and Spanish Mining in the Galisteo and Hagan Basins. New Mexico Geological Society Special Publications, No. 8, Socorro.

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