The Evil Eye Gold Fever in Ojo de la Casa Faithful Shep Holds the Fort Annual Roundup of the No-Cow Cattle Company Trucking in New Mexico A Spanish Engagement Pillaging the Silver City Stage Escape of "the Kid" Reconsidered El Retrace Born with Irrigation Boots On Healer and the…
W. M. Emery 2/5/37 Years ago, when the citizens of Clayton were still depending on the ever faithful Dobbin as a means of local transportation, and the automobile had not yet been introduced in the town, the town people organized a company known as the “No-Cow Cattle Company,” whose…
My cousin Doris was a beautiful baby and she had the sweetest smile a child could have. In our village, there were superstitions about giving the evil eye to babies such as Doris. Doris would not quit crying and she cried as though she were in great pain. Her…
By John P. Wilson A new era in cross-country communications opened in October 1858, when the Butterfield Overland Mail linked the westernmost railroad line in Missouri with San Francisco in California. The stagecoaches and lighter celerity wagons completed their 2,800 mile runs in as little as twenty-one days….
Men’s New Dorm University of New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico February 3, 1942 Honorable Governor Miles Governors Mansion Santa Fe, New Mexico Dear Sir; Last week thirty Japanese from Clovis were sent to Ft. Stanton to be interned. This action affected me very much because my parents are Japanese…
Sacred Duty: A Biographical Sketch of Tamasaku Watanabe, Japanese Christian Minister in U.S. Justice Department Internment, 1941-45* Gail Y. Okawa Department of English Youngstown State University My maternal grandfather, Tamasaku Watanabe, immigrated to the United States from Hiroshima, Japan. That act in itself did not distinguish him, of…
Albuquerque’s East End Addition By Michael Ann Sullivan The East End Addition was the first African-American suburb in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Built between 1950 and 1972, it is a small enclave of residential homes on the single city blocks of Virginia and Vermont streets, north of Lomas Boulevard, and…
By Pablo Mitchell Life changed in many ways in New Mexico after the railroad arrived in 1880. One of the most profound changes occurred in burial practices. For growing numbers of New Mexicans, burial practices became more professionalized and market-oriented as trained morticians and undertakers increasingly made a living…
Dr. Gail Y. Okawa Department of English Youngstown State University An underlying blessing of research is unpredictability. I was searching for materials on the U.S. Department of Justice World War II internment of Japanese immigrants from Hawai`i in locations like Lordsburg and Santa Fe, New Mexico, Missoula, Montana, and…
1907 By Lauren Gray* George Hoshida was born in Kumamoto, Japan in 1907 but spent relatively little time there. In 1912, his father, who had immigrated to Hilo, Hawaii, sent for his wife and children. However, funds were limited, so four year old George came to Hilo with his…
