Books

Reading List

A List of Books on Alamos, its History and its People, written by admirers of all nations follows.  Many of these as well as books written by residents of Alamos can be found at “Kathy Korner” bookstore, where proceeds go to the scholarship fund administered by the “Amigos de la Educacion”.

2018

2012

2008

2004

2014

2003

“Alamos and Arizpe, Sonora & the Anza Trail”

“Our Stories of Alamos, Un Pueblo Magico!”

“Alamos, Sonora” Architecture & Urbanism in the Dry Tropics”

“An Alamos Handbook”

“Over These Cobblestones, An Alamos Sojourn”
“The Alamos Guidebook”

Bezy, John

Love, Donna

Messina, John

Ridley, Jo Ann

Preece, Emily
McGee, Donna & Hamma, BK

2015

1964

1972

1859

1991

1980

1964

1984

1973

1963

1991

1991

1920

1989

   

1955

1962

1994

1996

1947

1908

1960

1977

1993

1980

1931

1993

1992

“Alamos – Por los Siglos de los Siglos”

“Alamos de Sonora”
“Alamos, Sonora Pueblo Sonora Mexico”
“Almada of Alamos, Diary of D.B.”
“Almadas of Alamos” The Almada Family from 1783-1867
“Bride for a Silver King”
“Las Delicias” Restoration of Colonial Ruin
“Carlos R. Ortiz,El Federista”
“Ghosts of Alamos”
“Inherit the Earth-Stories of Mexican Ranch Life”
“Las Casas Grandes de Alamos”
“Mexico Frontiers”
“My Youth in Alamos” Published in 1983
“Never Lose Your Discouragement”

   

“Rise and Fall of a Mining Community”
“The Smoke Signal”
“The Gringo’s Investment Guide”
“Stately Homes of Alamos”
“Sonora Sketch Book” Memories of Alamos 1930-45
“Viva Mexico”
“Josephus Daniels in Mexico”
“Pancho Villa”
“The Night Visitor and Other Stories” Novel
“Traven, the Man Who Was”
“Old Mother Mexico”
“The Secret Forest”
“The Sonoran Desert”
Vidal Castillo, Juan
Franklin, Ida Louise
Gordon, Darley
Miles, Carlotta
Stagg, Albert
Franklin, Ida Louise
Franklin, Ida Louise
Corella, Ruiba
Franklin, Ida Louise
Gordon, Alvin
Gillette, Leila
Dodge, Nicholas
Urrea de Figueroa, Otilla

Gordon, Alvin

Illust. Ralph Cordrey
Stewart, Norman
French, Rachel
Combs-Ramirez, Ginger
Gillette, Leila
Hilton, John W
Flandrau, C.M.
Cronon, David
Peterson/Knoles
Traven, B
Wyatt, Will
Carr, Harry
Bowden, Charles
Bowden, Charles

Photos: Dykinga, Jack W

2002

2012

1517
“The Guarijios of the Sierra Madre”
“Maria de los Alamos, La Nina del Retrato”
“True History of the Conquest of Mexico” One of Cortez’s Captains

Yetman, David

Molina, Silvia
Diaz, Bernal

1839

“Life in Mexico”
Barca, Francis Calderon de

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