By Michael Miller In the year 2010, New Mexico’s rich Hispano literary tradition reached the four-century mark. Beginning with the publication of Historia de la Nueva Mexico in Spain in the year 1610, publishing in and about Nuevo México has flourished and endured over the centuries. This vibrant and…
Wine Production in El Paso and the Grapevine Inventory of 1755 by Rick Hendricks Wine production in colonial El Paso had its roots farther north in New Mexico. Before he came to El Paso to found the mission Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe to serve the Manso Indians, fray García…
History of Greeks in Albuquerque, 1900–1952 By Katherine Pomonis The first Greeks started coming to Albuquerque around the late 1890s. This is their story from 1900 through 1952. This 52-year period was the era when the Greeks of Albuquerque established their community and the St. George Greek Orthodox Church. …
1881 By Priscilla Solis Ybarra, Ph.D. Adelina (Nina) Otero Warren—suffragist, educator, politician, entrepreneur, and writer– was born in 1881 in La Constancia, New Mexico, near Los Lunas. She was the second child of Manuel B. Otero and Eloisa Luna Otero. Both her parents had deep roots in New Mexico,…
By Orae Dominguez Doña Maria Gertrudis Barceló, she preferred the name Madame La Tules, was well known as an expert card dealer. Her fame as the best Monte dealer spread throughout the territories. She was literate, shrewd, and an independent businesswoman who had amassed wealth and power as a…
babies, infants, children, illness, health Claude Stephenson, State Folklorist, Department of Cultural Affairs Rick Hendricks, State Historian, State Records Center and Archives The cool climate of Cloudcroft provided a welcome sanctuary for infants suffering from heat-related ailments back before the invention of air conditioning.
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…
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…
1831 By Rick Hendricks, Ph.D. New Mexico State Historian David J. Miller was born around 1831 in Alabama to parents who were natives of Maryland. Nothing is known of Miller's early childhood, but he spent two years during his youth living with the family of Tejano patriot José…
Terry Moody and Clarence Fielder The African-American Experience African-Americans have been significant to the history of southern New Mexico since the 1860s. The earliest African-Americans to spend more than a short period of time in the New Mexico Territory were troops of black soldiers—the famous “Buffalo Soldiers”—sent by the…
