A Story of Patagonia
John Locke Blake
The Book Guild Ltd., Lewes, Sussex 2003

an engrossing account of four generations of sheep-ranchers, first in the Falklands [Malvinas] and later in mainland Patagonia; good historical and economic context; many families and individuals mentioned

Album Ultima Esperanza
Sociedad Explotadora de Tierra del Fuego
Puerto Natales, 1923

photographic record of the company's operations and personnel in Ultima Esperanza

Catastro de los Cementerios Antiguos de la Comuna de Cabo de Hornos
Chevallay, Denis
Fuegia & Co, Punta Arenas, 2001 (private limited edition)

includes several missionary cemeteries

Censo Jeneral del Territorio de Magallanes (1906), 2 vols.
Navarro Avaria, Lautaro
pub. 1907-8

the official census results; extensive statistical analyses; descriptions of various economic sectors

Centenario de Río Gallegos
Ed. Juan Bautista Baillinou
Municipalidad de Río Gallegos, 1985

interesting review of different aspects of the city's history; many old photographs

Contribución británica a la colonización de la Patagonia austral (Santa Cruz, Tierra del Fuego y Magallanes) 1885 a 1913
author unknown
Argentina Austral, c.1943

article highlights owners of sheep ranches

Crónicas de las Tierras del Sur del Canal Beagle
Martinic B., Mateo
Buenos Aires, 1973

history of the Chilean islands down to Cape Horn

Crónicas de Ultima Esperanza
Díaz, Jorge
Punta Arenas, 1994 (in print)

historical episodes from Puerto Natales and district

El Baker: un Territorio Bravío
Campos Menéndez, Francisco
Santiago, 1986

describes the challenges of the first sheep ranchers in southern Aysén

El Gran Libro de la Provincia de Santa Cruz, 2 vols
Godoy, Carlos
Milenio/Alfa, 2000 (in print)

wide-ranging survey of the province: its history, geography, agriculture etc

En la Isla del Fuego, Vol. 3
Belza, Juan E.
Buenos Aires, 1977 (available locally)

chronicles the later settlement process in Argentine Tierra del Fuego

En Viaje
Ferrocarriles de Chile
1944

large section devoted to Magallanes, informative

From the Falklands to Patagonia
Michael Mainwaring
1983

history of the pioneer Halliday family, and the develpment of the region in general; mentions many early settlers

Index of Naturalization Letters
Ministry of Interior, Chile
Santiago, 1927

reference copy at National Archives, Santiago

La Masacre en la Federación Obrera de Magallanes
Carlos Vega Delgado
Punta Arenas, 2002

history of the labour movement in Magallanes and Tierra del Fuego (Chile) up to 1920; extensive quotations from contemporary publications and eye-witnesses

La Patagonia Rebelde, 4 vols.
Osvaldo Bayer
Planeta Argentina, Buenos Aires, 1999?

an exhaustively researched account of the origins, evolution, outcome and consequences of the tragically repressed 1921 labour dispute in Santa Cruz province

La Patagonia Trágica
Borrero, José María
Peña Lillo, Buenos Aires, 1999 (first published 1928)

an exposé of the corruption, injustice and violence that accompanied the settlement of Southern Patagonia

La Pequeña Babel Magallánica 1888-1889
Contardi, Juan B.
Museo de la Patagonia, Punta Arenas, 1975

 

La Tierra de los Fuegos
Martinic B., Mateo
Punta Arenas, 1982

history of the Chilean sector of Tierra del Fuego

Las 22 Vidas de Shackleton
Berguño, Jorge
Editorial Universitaria, Santiago, 1985

a broad study of Antarctic exploration, with emphasis on the events leading up to the 1916 rescue of Shackleton's stranded comrades, and its principal characters (Sir Ernest Shackleton and Piloto Pardo)

Las Estancias Magallánicas
Benavides, Martinic, Pizzi, Valenzuela
Ed. Universitaria, Santiago, 1999 (in print)

history and architecture of local ranch buildings

Los Británicos en Punta Arenas
Escobar V., Anibal
República de Chile, Santiago 1922

glossy writeup of the dominant immigrant group of the period

Magallanes 1921-1952, Inquietud y Crisis
Martinic B., Mateo
Punta Arenas, 1988

 

Magallanes 1925
Zorilla, Manuel
Punta Arenas, 1925?

informative illustrated guide to the region; includes history of settlement and growth

Patagonian Panorama
Jones, Tom P., O.B.E.
Bournemouth, 1961

a first-hand account by one who spent 47 years in the region

Pequeña Historia Fueguina
Braun Menéndez, Armando
Ed. Francisco de Aguirre, Buenos Aires/Santiago, 1939

part of a classic series; by a local author

Pequeña Historia Magallánica
Braun Menéndez, Armando
Ed. Francisco de Aguirre, Buenos Aires/Santiago, 1937

Punta Arenas en su Primer Medio Siglo (1848-1898)
Martinic, Mateo
Punta Arenas, 1988

 

Pupil Roster, 1936
British School, Punta Arenas
unpublished

 

Romancero del Topónimo Fueguino
Belza, Juan E.
Insituto de Investigaciones Históricas Tierra del Fuego,1978
(available locally)

the story behind the placenames of Argentine Tierra del Fuego

Seis Caballos y un Winchester
Roberto Trincado Allembech
Santiago, 2000

reminiscences of the author's years as a management trainee in the estancias of Magallanes during the 1950s

Sociedad Explotadora de Tierra del Fuego, 1893-1943
Durán, Fernando
Valparaiso, 1943

official company history

South of South America
Hunziker, James H. & May, Alan G.
Natural History Magazine, New York?, September 1956, pp. 357-386

chronicle of 2 years' sheep-farming on an island near Cape Horn

Streams in the Wasteland: a Portrait of the British in Patagonia
Dooley, Elizabeth
Imp. Rasmussen, Punta Arenas, 1993 (in print)

history developed around the Anglican church, Punta Arenas; many short biographies; names indexed

This Way Southward
Tschiffely, A. F.
Norton, New York, 1940

chronicle of a journey through the wilder parts of Patagonia, by motor car and on horseback.

Ultima Esperanza en el Tiempo
Martinic, Mateo
Universidad de Magallanes, Chile, 2000 (in print, 2nd edition)

history of Ultima Esperanza, with photos

Uttermost Part of the Earth
Bridges, E. Lucas
Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1951

the classic story of growing up among the native peoples of the Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego; the author's father was an Anglican missionary

Why Patagonia?
Mackenzie, Greta
Stornoway 1995 (out of print)

a travelogue, with photos