Born in Nelson County, KY.; educated in county schools; attended medical school of the Transylvania University at Lexington, Ky.; was graduated in 1828 and moved to Liberty, Clay County, Mo.; later in same year moved to Chihuahua, Mexico; married in Mexico in 1838; in 1848 moved to Santa Fe,…
1802 Born perhaps in Georgia in 1802, although the details of his early life are uncertain. Calhoun was married in December 1822 to Caroline Anne Simmons of South Carolina, by whom he was the father of Martha Ann and Carolina Louisa. After the death of his first wife in…
1810 by Denise Holladay Damico, Ph.D. New Mexico History Scholar While Guadalupe Miranda may be best known in New Mexico history as one of the original recipients of what came to be known as the Maxwell Land Grant, his legacy stretches beyond that claim to fame. After the conquest…
By Kim Suina Peoples of the Southwest and Mexico used the Camino Real corridor for trade and as a communication network for hundreds of years before the arrival of European settlers. Indian trails encompassing the Camino Real linked the Aztec Empire and other Mesoamerican civilizations with the northern Chihuahuan…
By Juan Estevan Arellano With the colonization of the Americas by Spanish settlers, New Mexico was introduced to new peoples including assorted Europeans, Tlaxcalteca Indians and mestizos from Nueva España or Mexico. In addition, New Mexico saw the introduction of different fruits and vegetables never before seen in this…
By Estevan Arellano In terms of water, Ibn Bassal, writing in 1075, identified four sources of water: 1) water from rivers that is then channeled into a network of acequias, 2) water from norias, anora in Arabic, or wells, 3) spring water and 4) rainfall. And the “water way”…
Kenna, Great Plains, Agricultural Community By John W. Murphey Cattle Empire Kenna, a small ranching community in Roosevelt County, started in name in 1899 as a construction camp along the Pecos Valley and Northeastern Railroad. Before the arrival of the railroad, famed Texas cattleman George W. Littlefield claimed much…
Lordsburg Internment POW Camp By Millie Pressler One of the least studied aspects of the history of World War II has been the network of internment and prisoner of war camps established by the Department of Justice and the United States Army. Few people may realize such a camp…
In 1924, renowned Santa Fe artist Will Shuster added Zozobra to the Santa Fe fiesta celebrations. Local artist William Howard Shuster, Jr. – "Will" (1893-1969) conceived and created Zozobra in 1924 as the focus of a private fiesta at his home for artists and writers in the community. His…
By Chuck Hornung “A rather unusual institution within New Mexico is the mounted police, who numbered 11 in 1907, whose work was almost entirely in the cattle country, and who had authority to patrol the entire Territory and to make arrests or to preserve order wherever their presence…
