The New Mexico Magazine launched in 1923, is the first state magazine founded anywhere in the nation, preceding Arizona Highways. New Mexico Magazine publishes a monthly print edition, maintains a website, and also prints and sells books, posters, notecards and many other gift items.

Overview

Based in Santa Fe, the magazine got its start as the official New Mexico Highway Department newsletter, but its mission expanded in the 1930s, when it began to run more feature stories of interest to New Mexico tourists. Today, the magazine covers a broad range of topics, including New Mexico's history, archeology, culture, people, natural wonders and tourist attractions.

Most of New Mexico's best-known authors, journalists and photographers have contributed work to the magazine over the years. Tony Hillerman

Tony Hillerman

Tony Hillerman was an award-winning American author of detective novels and non-fiction works best known for his Navajo Tribal Police mystery novels...

, Rudolfo Anaya

Rudolfo Anaya

Rudolfo Anaya is an Mexican-American author. Best known for his 1972 novel Bless Me, Ultima, Anaya is considered one of the founders of the canon of contemporary Chicano literature.- Biography :...

, John Nichols

John Nichols (American writer)

John Treadwell Nichols is an American novelist.-Biography:Nichols is the author of the "New Mexico trilogy", a series about the complex relationship between history, race and ethnicity, and land and water rights in the fictional Chamisaville County, New Mexico...

, Ernie Pyle

Ernie Pyle

Ernest Taylor Pyle was an American journalist who wrote as a roving correspondent for the Scripps Howard newspaper chain from 1935 until his death in combat during World War II. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1944...

, John Sinclair

John Sinclair

John Sinclair may refer to:* John Sinclair , Ordinary Lord and later Lord President in the Court of Session* Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet , politician and writer on agriculture and finance...

 and Erna Fergusson

Erna Fergusson

Erna Fergusson was an avid writer, historian, and storyteller, who documented the culture and history of New Mexico for more than forty years.- Early life :...

 have all penned articles or essays. Edward Weston

Edward Weston

Edward Henry Weston was a 20th century American photographer. He has been called "one of the most innovative and influential American photographers…" and "one of the masters of 20th century photography." Over the course of his forty-year career Weston photographed an increasingly expansive set of...

 gave the magazine a collection of 33 original photographs in 1939, which the magazine subsequently donated to the Museum of New Mexico. Photographers whose works have since graced the pages of the magazine include Harvey Caplin, Paul Caponigro

Paul Caponigro

- Photography career :Caponigro was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He studied with Minor White and has been awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships and three grants from the NEA. His best known photograph is Running White Deer....

, Douglas Kent Hall

Douglas Kent Hall

Douglas Kent Hall was an American writer and photographer. Hall was a fine art photographer and writer of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, essays, and screenplays...

, Miguel Gandert and Eliot Porter

Eliot Porter

Eliot Furness Porter was an American photographer best known for his color photographs of nature.-Early life:...

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New Mexico Magazine is a division within the New Mexico Tourism Department and produces an annual vacation guide for the department, with international editions available in English, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish. The most recent books published by the magazine include Ol Slim's Views from the Porch, featuring humor columns by Slim Randles with illustrations by Grem Lee, and King of the Road: Adventures Along New Mexico's Friendly Byways, a collection of travel articles by Lesley S. King.