Books about Philmont Scout Ranch

New Mexico Bureau of Mines Documents about Philmont Scout Ranch

• NMBMMR Open-File Reports
  New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources (505) 835-5410

  Id#: NMBM-OFR-0022
  Author: R. Balk
  Title: Geologic Guide to the Trails at Philmont Scout Ranch
  Year: 1953
  Layout: 76 pages.
  Total Cost: $15.20
  

• NMBMMR Publications - Circulars
  New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources (505) 835-5410

  Circular 92 - Geochemical anomalies in the Philmont Ranch region,
     New Mexico, by F. L. Misaqi, 1968, 12 p.
     $ 2.75
  

Commercially Published Books about Philmont Scout Ranch

• Cass, William F.
  The Last Flight of Liberator 41-1133
  Pub: BookMasters, Inc 800/247-6443
  456p. Illustrated
  ISBN: 0-9702972-0-3 (Softcover) $18.95
  Publication date: 9/15/2000
  See also: Atlas Books
  

• Cass, William F.
  Return to the Summit of Scouting:
  a Scouter's Midlife Journey Back to Philmont
  Pub: Wilderness Adventure Books
  384p. Illustrated
  ISBN: 0-9235-6829-8 (Paperback) $12.95
  Publication date: 4/1993
  Introduction by: Davis, Joe

• Connelly, Michael
  Riders in the Sky:
  The Ghosts and Legends of Philmont Scout Ranch
  Pub: Merril Press
  128p.
  ISBN: 0-9367-8330-3 (Paperback) $12.00?
  Publication date: 8/2001

• Huffman, Minor S.
  High Adventure among the Magic Mountains:
  Philmont the First 50 Years
  Pub: T I B S, Incorporated
  281p. Illustrated
  ISBN: 0-6852-7012-2 (Trade Cloth) $19.95
  ISBN: 0-6852-7013-0 (Trade Paper) $9.95
  Publication date: 12/1988
  Foreword by: Love, Ben H.
• Knox, Bob
  Growing Up to Cowboy
  A Memoir of the American West
  Pub: Sunstone Press
  392p.
  ISBN: 0-86534-353-5 (Trade Paper) $18.95
  Publication date: 2002

• McCormick, Wilfred
  Eagle Scout (fiction)
  Pub: New York: Putnam
  183 p.
  Publication date: 1982

• Murphy, Lawrence R.
  Philmont: A History of New Mexico's Cimarron Country. 2nd ed.
  Pub: University of New Mexico Press
  283p. Illustrated
  ISBN: 0-8263-0244-0 (Trade Paper) $11.95
  Publication date: 06/1972
  Introduction by: Barber, Alden G.
  A history of the Philmont Scout Ranch and beautiful Cimarron County, New Mexico. Life zones of the Philmont area; Wildlife; People of the Plains and Pueblos; The Ponil people; The Indian invasion; Conquest of La Jacarilla; Exploring the great southwest; Blazing the Santa Fe Trail; Across the Ameican desert; Fur trapping in the Southern Rockies; The Beaubien and Miranda Land Grant; Obtaining a grant of land; Philmont's first settlers; War and massacre; Founding of Rayado; The Army at Philmont; Lucien B. Maxwell; Colfax County War; Urracea Ranch; Mining; Timber; Ranching; Scouting; and more.

• Robinson, G. D. et al
  PHILMONT COUNTRY:
  The Rocks and Landscape of a Famous New Mexico Ranch
  Pub: Washington (G.P.O.)
  Publication date: 1964
  152 p. (11 x 8 1/2")
  many photo plates, drawings, sections, and six large folding color plates in pocket

• Williams, Joe
  Philmont: Where Spirits Soar.
  Pub: Boy Scouts of America
  ISBN: 0-8395-4079-5 (Trade Cloth) $29.95
  ISBN: 0-8263-0244-0 (Trade Paper) $11.95
  Publication date: 12/1989
  Publisher's Order No.: 34079

• Zimmer, Stephen
  For Good or Bad: People of the Cimarron Country
  Pub: Sunstone Press, Santa Fe, N.M.
  (paperback) $12.95
  Publication date: 1999
  Reviewed by Chrys Ankeny on HistoryNet

• Zimmer, Stephen & Walker, Larry
  Philmont: A Brief History of the New Mexico Scout Ranch
  Illustrated
  Pub: Sunstone Press
  ISBN: 0-8653-4293-8 (Paperback)
  Publication date: 4/2000

• Zimmer & Walker
  Philmont: An Illustrated History
  Pub: Philmont Scout Ranch
  ISBN: 9-9912-7806-0 (Paperback) $14.95
  Publication date: 6/1989

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