Fruit, fiber, and fire [electronic resource] : a history of modern agriculture in New Mexico / William R. Carleton.

Fruit, Fiber, and Fire explores the industrialization of apples, cotton, and chile to illustrate how agriculture has spurred migrations of plants and people and in turn shaped the culture of twentieth-century New Mexico.

Part 1. Apples -- Before There Were Aliens, There Were Apples: Myths, Moths, and Modernity in New Mexico's Early Commercial Orchards -- Patent Lies, the "People's Business," and the Modern Core of Northern New Mexico Agriculture, 1940- -- Part 2. Cotton -- The Shifting Subjects of a Southwest King: Cotton, Agricultural Industrialization, and Migrations in the Interwar New Mexico Borderlands -- Diversification, Paternalism, and the Transnational Threads of Cotton in Southern New Mexico: The Industrial Ideal at Work at Stahmann Farms, 1926- -- Part 3. Chile -- Crossing Chiles, Crossing Borders: Dr. Fabián García, the New Mexican Chile Pepper, and Modernity in the Early Twentieth-Century U.S.-Mexico Borderlands -- The Evolution of a Modern Pod: The Industrial Chile and Its Storytellers in New Mexico.

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