Mesilla, riots, politicians Claude Stephenson, State Folklorist, Department of Cultural Affairs Rick Hendricks, State Historian, State Records Center and Archives Disagreements between Democrats and Republicans turn deadly on Mesilla Plaza.
Centennial, radio, San Marcial, Claude Stephenson, State Folklorist Rick Hendricks, State Historian Click here to read about the flood Listen to the audio on the tragic flood washing away the town of San Marcial, NM.
President, Taft, Statehood, Territory of New Mexico, 47th Star Claude Stephenson, State Folklorist, New Mexico Centennial Committee Rick Hendricks, State Historian, New Mexico Centennial Committee After 64 years as a territory of the United States, New Mexico finally achives statehood in 1912.
Seeking a Cure, Transforming New Mexico: The Lungers and Their Legacy by Nancy Owen Lewis, Ph.D. Thousands of people flocked to New Mexico from 1880 through 1940 seeking a cure for tuberculosis, the leading cause of death in America. These lungers, as they were called, included artists such as…
1 5 1881 “There Was a Time and it Was Tingley’s” * By Suzanne Stamatov Clyde Tingley was born in Madison County, Ohio on 5 January 1881, the son of George and Belle Tingley. He studied at local public schools and sought employment as a railroad construction worker and…
1825 The Politician Who Bridged the 37th Parallel By Mark Thompson New Mexicans who use U.S. 285, Colorado 17 and U.S. 24 to get to the Vail Valley of Colorado, or maybe just use La Veta Pass as an alternative to Raton Pass when heading to Denver, know instinctively…
Governor Fernando de Villanueva by Rick Hendricks, Ph.D Fernando de Villanueva y Armendaris was born in San Sebastián in the Spanish Basque province of Guipúzcoa to Fernando de Villanueva y Armendaris and Clara de Irigoyen. Nothing is known of his childhood, but he was probably still a teenager when…
by Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint The decades of the 1660s and 1670s were ones of looming catastrophe for the Spanish province of New Mexico. There had been repeated disputes between Franciscan clergy and royal governors over use of Indian labor and conflicting attitudes toward native religious practice….
10 17 1859 Born in Missouri, Otero’s parents took him at the age of two back to their home in New Mexico, crossing the plains in a stagecoach. He was later to return east to be educated at St. Louis University and the University of Notre Dame. He became…
1550 Juan de Oñate was born circa 1550 in the frontier settlement of Zacatecas, Mexico, the son of Cristóbal de Oñate and Catalina de Salazar. His father was a prominent Zacatecas mine owner and encomendero. Juan de Oñate married Isabel de Tolosa Cortés Moctezuma, a descendant of the famous…
