The Preservation of the Village

The Preservation of the Village: New Mexico’s Hispanic and the New Deal by Suzanne Forrest. This history of Hispanic villages of New Mexico during the 1930s takes as its focus the New Deal programs designed to revitalize those villages. New introduction by William de Buys and a conclusion that covers economic development in rural Northern New Mexico in the 1990s. Photos of village life in the 1930s, many by John Collier, bring that era back to life.

UNM Press, 1998, 2nd Ed. 270 pp.