Los Alamos, Manhattan Project, Oppenheimer, Trinity, atomic age Claude Stephenson, State Folklorist, Department of Cultural Affairs Rick Hendricks, State Historian, State Records Center and Archives Ashley Pond's dream of an elite boarding school for boys with nature as a teacher is preempted by a top-secret project that changes the…
UNM, students, US troops, Vietnam, war Claude Stephenson, State Folklorist, Department of Cultural Affairs Rick Hendricks, State Historian, State Records Center and Archives In May 1970, a student demonstration at UNM protesting the U.S. Cambodia strikes and the shooting of students at Kent State turns violent.
land grants, theft, rebellion, murder, prisioners, uprisings Claude Stephenson, State Folklorist, Department of Cultural Affairs Rick Hendricks, State Historian, State Records Center and Archives Reies Lopez Tijerina Tijerina, a charismatic religious leader from Texas moves to Arizona and then to New Mexico. He devotes his life to restoring the…
Mexican, Navajo, Apache, Sonora, Native American Claude Stephenson, State Folklorist, Department of Cultural Affairs Rick Hendricks, State Historian, State Records Center and Archives Jesus Arviso was a man of conflicted loyalties. He was born a Mexican citizen in Sonora and captured by Apaches as a boy, then traded to…
hotels, tourism, business Claude Stephenson, State Folklorist, Department of Cultural Affairs Rick Hendricks, State Historian, State Records Center and Archives Born and raised in the small New Mexico town of San Antonio, Conrad Hilton becomes the founder of a hotel empire.
hotels, people, Native American, tourism Claude Stephenson, State Folklorist, Department of Cultural Affairs Rick Hendricks, State Historian, State Records Center and Archives The Fred Harvey Restaurants made rail travel cuisine safe and reliable for grateful gastronomes everywhere. 1 The Fred Harvey Company built some really cool hotels in New…
outlaw, governors, presidents Claude Stephenson, State Folklorist, Department of Cultural Affairs Rick Hendricks, State Historian, State Records Center and Archives Donald Waskey ran for Governor of New Mexico in 1972 under the alias Ulysses S. Grant and campaigned across the state on horseback. Shortly after the election, he left…
outlaws Claude Stephenson, State Folklorist, Department of Cultural Affairs Rick Hendricks, State Historian, State Records Center and Archives Marino Leyba was a bad man back in the 1880s when he was known as the "Sandia Mountain Desperado", waylaying unsuspecting travelers along the Turquoise Trail.
Claude Stephenson, State Folklorist, Department of Cultural Affairs Rick Hendricks, State Historian, State Records Center and Archives A plan to help save the endangered whooping cranes by giving them foster parents among sandhill cranes thriving in New Mexico's Bosque del Apache takes off in the 1970s but never does…
Claude Stephenson, State Folklorist, Department of Cultural Affairs Rick Hendricks, State Historian, State Records Center and Archives David Miller was quite fluent in Spanish, a skill that got him appointed as the official translator for New Mexico during the early territorial days. David J. Miller
