politics, politicians, guns Claude Stephenson, State Folklorist, Department of Cultural Affairs Rick Hendricks, State Historian, State Records Center and Archives A political contest in Mesilla sparks a duel with pistols that solves nothing.
immigrant, Asian-American, Chinese Claude Stephenson, State Folklorist, Department of Cultural Affairs Rick Hendricks, State Historian, State Records Center and Archives The ghost of Ah Nue, a Chinese immigrant, is said to still haunt the town of White Oaks, NM.
crime, murder, teenagers Claude Stephenson, State Folklorist, Department of Cultural Affairs Rick Hendricks, State Historian, State Records Center and Archives The poisoning of Manuel Madrid in Hillsboro at the turn of the century returned a verdict that left two teenaged girls facing the gallows.
Claude Stephenson, State Folklorist, Department of Cultural Affairs Rick Hendricks, State Historian, State Records Center and Archives Scottish Rite Center: What do they do? What goes on in that big pink Scottish Rite building? 2 Scottish Rite Centennial The Scottish Rite Center in Santa Fe celebrated its 100th…
priest, religious Claude Stephenson, State Folklorist, Department of Cultural Affairs Rick Hendricks, State Historian, State Records Center and Archives A young French priest causes a scandal in Mesilla but redeems himself by becoming a pillar in that community. 3474
water, money Claude Stephenson, State Folklorist, Department of Cultural Affairs Rick Hendricks, State Historian, State Records Center and Archives Entrepreneurs decide to move the water from snowmelt on Sierra Blanca to more profitable places.
mining, baseball Claude Stephenson, State Folklorist, Department of Cultural Affairs Rick Hendricks, State Historian, State Records Center and Archives The little mining town of Madrid, NM was once a baseball powerhouse.
logging Claude Stephenson, State Folklorist, Department of Cultural Affairs Rick Hendricks, State Historian, State Records Center and Archives El Vado was once a thriving and bustling logging town, but now in lies at the bottom of El Vado Lake.
crime, outlaws, Fountain, murder, shootouts Claude Stephenson, State Folklorist, Department of Cultural Affairs Rick Hendricks, State Historian, State Records Center and Archives In 1914, legendary lawman Elfego Baca is implicated in the daring escape from Albuquerque's Old Town Jail of a Mexican Revolution era general accused of murdering New…
Native Americans, Navajo, soldiers, US Army, World War II, heros, heroism Claude Stephenson, State Folklorist, Department of Cultural Affairs Rick Hendricks, State Historian, State Records Center and Archives The US Army recruits Navajos to develop a secret code for use in battlefield communications that the Japanese are never…
