We owe a large debt of gratitude to historian Marc Simmons for his highly readable and comprehensive Albuquerque histories,  and to the local contributors noted below.  Significant use was made of the resource bibliography listed in generating and verifying the matrix material.  . – Sherry Robinson, Editor

Contributors:   Jan Dodson Barnhart, Don Bullis, Nicholasa Chavez, Elizabeth Chestnut, Darlene Couchman, Donald Couchman, Orae Dominguex, Deborah Egan, Pelayo Fernandez, Carolyn Gonzales, Elizabeth Haskett, David Jackson, Michael Kelly, John Lucero, Randy Pence, Sherry Robinson, Marla Rodriquez, Robert Rodriquez, Joe Sabitini, Ruben Salaz, Joe Sando,  Millie Santillanes, David Schneider and Deb Slaney. 

Anella, Anthony and Childs, Mark C. Never Say Goodbye, 2000.
Biebel, Charles D. Making Most of It: Public Works in Albuquerque during the Great
      Depression 1929-1942, 1986.
     “Cultural Change on the Southwest Frontier: Albuquerque Schooling,” New Mexico Historical Review, July, 1980.
Bunting, Bainbridge. Early Architecture in New Mexico, 1976.
Chávez, Thomas E. An Illustrated History of New Mexico, 1992.
Davis, Mary. Albuquerque’s Environmental Story: http://www.cabq.gov/aes/
Fergusson, Erna. Albuquerque, 1947.
Fitzpatrick, George and Caplin, Harvey. Albuquerque: 100 Years in Pictures, 1875-1975, 1975.
Garcia, Nasario. Albuquerque: Feliz Cumpleaños! Three Centuries to Remember, 2005.
Harrington, E.R., The Albuquerque Public Schools, 1963.
Hooker, Van Dorn. Only in New Mexico, 2003
Hughes, Dorothy B. Pueblo on the Mesa, 1939, 1989
Johnson, Byron A. Old Town, Albuquerque, New Mexico: A Guide to its History and
     Architecture, 1980.
Kessell, John L. Kiva, Cross, and Crown: The Pecos Indians and New Mexico 1540-
     1840, 1987.
Landon, Susan, “’Frontier Schoolmaster’ Led APS for 45 Years.” Albuquerque Journal, 
     September 19, 1982.
“Schools Had Hard Soil to Grow In.” Albuquerque Journal, September 19, 1982.
Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the Territory of New Mexico, in
     Report of the Governor of New Mexico to the Secretary of the Interior, 1899.
Sánchez, Joseph P. The Río Abajo Frontier 1540-1692: A History of Early Colonial New
     Mexico, 1987.
Sanders, Jeffrey C. McClellan Park: The Life and Death of an Urban Green Space, 2004
Sando, Joe. Pueblo Nations: Eight Centuries of Pueblo Indian History, 1998.
Segale, Blandina. At the End of the Santa Fe Trail, Albuquerque, 1999
Simmons, Marc. Albuquerque: A Narrative History. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico
     Press, 1982.
Wiley, Tom. Politics and Purse Strings, 1965.