Jemez Pueblo Walatowa or Giusewa, "Place at the Boiling Waters," is the traditional name for Jemez Pueblo. Jemez Pueblo is the only remaining Towa speaking pueblo. In efforts to prevent exploitation, the tribe’s traditional law makes it illegal to make Towa written a written language, thus it…
Charles Carrillo is a renowned New Mexico santero, a carver and painter of the images of santos (Roman Catholic saints). His interest in this traditional craft began as a young man when, as an undergraduate in archeology at University of New Mexico, he oversaw a project to research the…
Alamogordo Soon thereafter Eddy bought the spring from rancher Oliver M. Lee to furnish water for the RR town he and his brother, John Arthur Eddy, were planning nearby. The townsite itself was purchased and laid out in 1898. In 1923, on the 25th anniversary of the town's founding,…
SELECT COMMITTEE ON IRRIGATION, Saturday, March 1, 1890. The committee met pursuant to adjournment, Mr. Vandever in the chair. STATEMENT OF MAJ. J. W. POWELL continued. Maj. J. W. POWELL, Director of the Geological Survey, addressed the committee as follows: Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, I place…
Watrous, Santa Fe Trail, Santa Fe Railway, Shipping Point By Shirley Cushing Flint and Richard Flint Traveling north on Interstate 25 from Las Vegas, New Mexico it is easy to see that here the Great Plains dramatically meet the Rocky Mountains. To the east are endless, flat expanses, described…
By Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint For the better part of the nineteenth century relations were in turmoil between the Navajo people and other Native Americans, Hispanos, and Anglo-Americans who lived around and sometimes encroached on their territory. From time immemorial the Diné and their neighbors had engaged…
Ancient Chaco\' s New History by Stephen H. Lekson Chaco is an arid, barren, sandstone canyon in the middle of nowhere. But a millennium ago, in the eleventh and twelfth centuries A.D., ancient peoples not only survived there, they thrived and created an amazing city. Chaco\'s ruins awe us…
7 20 1827 by Denise Damico Eighteen-year-old Susan Shelby Magoffin left Independence, Missouri, to travel “Down the Santa Fe Trail and Into Mexico” in June, 1846, accompanied by her husband, Samuel Magoffin, a variety of servants and employees, and her dog, Ring. She was one of the first Anglo-American…
Roswell, Rio Hondo, Van C. Smith By David Kammer Designated in 1873 as Roswell, the name of the father of Van C. Smith, the settlement’s first postmaster, the town began to grow in the 1890s as a result of the discovery of artesian water and the coming of the…
