Paul Andrew Hutton to discuss 'The Undocumented Country' at Collected Works

AT COLLECTED WORKS

At 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 20, historian Paul Andrew Hutton will be in conversation with Hampton Sides about Hutton’s new book “The Undocumented Country: Triumph and Tragedy and the Shaping of the American West.”

In a blurb on the book’s back dust cover, Paul L. Hedren says that Hutton, “America’s most prominent Western historian,” takes the reader on a journey through the West. The narrative gives ample space to explore the lives of such well-known frontier figures as George Washington (yes, Washington was a frontiersman before he was president), Daniel Boone, Davey Crocket, Kit Carson and Buffalo Bill Cody.

The book also devotes many pages to Native American leaders, among them Red Eagle, Mangas Coloradas, Cochise and Sitting Bull, who struggled to hold onto their lands.

“The narrative,” Hedren says in the blurb, “is clever in concept, sweeping in scope, crisply written, and exhaustively documented. This is Hutton at his finest.”

Hutton is distinguished professor emeritus of history at the University of New Mexico. He is currently interim curator of the Buffalo Bill Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West.

Collected Works is located at 202 Galisteo St. in Santa Fe.

AT GERONIMO’S BOOKS

Santa Fe poet Alicia Elkort joins Karen Petersen as Petersen reads from her new poetry collection “Influences, The ‘Irish’ Poems” at 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 25.

Petersen’s poetry, short stories and flash fiction have appeared in national and international magazines and anthologies.

Geronimo’s Books is located at 3018 Cielo Court, Suite D, in Santa Fe.

AT NEW MEXICO HISTORY MUSEUM

Frances Levine will talk with writer/editor Kate Nelson about Levine’s book “Crossings: Women on the Santa Fe Trail” at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 22 at the New Mexico History Museum, 112 Lincoln Ave. in Santa Fe.

Levine’s book shines a light on some of the women travelers of the trail from the early 1820s to the late 1870s.

Among them were Comanche captive Maria Rosa Villalpando, suffragist Julia Anna Archibald Holmes, diarist Susan Shelby Magoffin and her enslaved servant Jane, army wife Anna Maria De Camp Morris and Jewish pioneers Betty and Flora Spiegelberg.

Levine is a former director of the New Mexico History Museum and the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe.

She later served as president and CEO of the Missouri History Museum and the Missouri Historical Society, both in St. Louis.

The New Mexico History Museum, the School for Advanced Research and the Historic Santa Fe Foundation are presenting the Santa Fe event.

Tickets are available online at sarweb.org.

A $75 ticket includes a copy of Levine’s book. A $50 ticket is for general admission.

IN ALBUQUERQUE

Judy Tull will sign copies of her book “Closing the Circle: A Journey of Love” from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 25, at Bibles Plus.

Tull says her book is an inspiring story that also contains elements of the traditions, celebrations and customs of immigrants from Italy to the United States, plus unexplainable and unexpected miraculous events.

Bibles Plus is located at 2740 Wyoming Blvd. NE, Suite 13.