El Malpais
In the Land of Frozen Fires: A History of Occupation in El Malpais Country 		NPS Logo

TABLE OF CONTENTS

COVER

LIST OF FIGURES

INTRODUCTION

I: SETTING

II: GLORY, GOD, AND GOLD: THE CONQUEST OF NEW MEXICO

III: EL MALPAIS UNDER SPAIN AND MEXICO, 1700-1846

IV: AMERICAN SURVEY PARTIES IN EL MALPAIS

V: A GARRISON IN THE MALPAIS: THE FORT WINGATE STORY

VI: SETTLEMENTS AND STEEL RAILS INVADE THE MALPAIS

VII: ECONOMIC DIVERSITY AND EXPANSION

VIII: A COUNTRY IN TRANSITION: EL MALPAIS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

IX: TOURISM AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A NATIONAL MONUMENT AND NATIONAL CONSERVATION AREA

BIBLIOGRAPHY


LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1 Fort Wingate Environs
Figure 2 Ground Plan of Fort Wingate, 1867
Figure 3 Section House, Grants Station, New Mexico
Figure 4 Lava beds of New Mexico, c. 1885
Figure 5 Lava beds near McCarty, c. 1885
Figure 6 Sheep camp at Cerro de la Bandera
Figure 7 Fluorspar Mine Number 21
Figure 8 Fluorspar Mine conveyor belt system
Figure 9 Region Map
Figure 10 Vicinity Map
Figure 11 Ice Caves new Bandera Crater
Figure 12 Travel in El Malpais Country

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