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Socorro’s Vines and Vintners

Finest wine in the city – 40,000 gallons – at L & H Huning and Goebel’ Transcript: By Phyllis O. Reiche             In April of 1884 the Socorro Daily Sun carried this advertisement:                         Finest wine in the city –                         40,000 gallons – at L & H                        …

Hispanic Shepherds of New Mexico

The History Bureau of the Museum of New Mexico conducted an oral history project covering the way of life of the Hispanic sheepherder of the states eastern plains.  The following account is based on the authors interviews at the History Bureau with Mariano Chavez, the son of a traditional…

Farming for Feathers

Farming for Feathers By John P. Wilson Las Cruces, NM   If it had been called “ranching,” there would be shelves of books about it. But because it was considered agricultural, ostrich farming is now nearly forgotten. We’re referring to the rosy prospects that Arizona farmers saw in raising…