By Rick Hendricks The following lists of presidial soldiers who served in El Paso were taken from pay records housed at the time at the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. In 1993 these treasury records were returned to Mexico, to be housed…
By Rick Hendricks The matter began simply enough. In early 1802, Captain Antonio García de Tejada informed Commandant General Pedro de Nava that the chaplain of San Carlos presidio, fray Luis Salgado, had denied the sacrament of the Eucharist to several young women. Father Salgado responded that the captain…
Translation by Rick Hendricks I, the minister who serves it, fray Ambrosio Guerra, provide information about this mission, Our Lady of Sorrows of the pueblo of Sandia; it has been two years since holy obedience placed me in it. It was built in the month of October 1787. Noted…
By Rick Hendricks On Friday 4 October 1929, Roy W. Johnson, football coach of the University of New Mexico Lobos, and Tom Popejoy, graduate manager of athletics at the University took in a game at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. They were scouting Occidental College in its contest…
Transcripción de Rick Hendricks Noticio de esta micion Nuestra Señora de los dolores del pueblo de sandia hay dos años que la santa obe- dencia me puso en ella: Habiendose erecto en el mes de hoctubre del año de mil cetecientos ochen- ta y ciete Ministro que…
By Rick Hendricks 5 October 1880 3. What Shall the Harvest Be? by Philip P. Bliss…
By Rick Hendricks Ulysses S. Grant once ran for governor of New Mexico. No, not that Ulysses S. Grant! The would-be governor was born Donald R. Waskey to Calvin and Margaret Waskey in Baltimore, Maryland, about 1938. Waskey apparently entered the Air Force and became a nuclear weapons mechanical…
By Rick Hendricks On 3 July 1850, Jean Baptiste Lamy was appointed Vicar Apostolic of Santa Fe. In December Lamy passed through New Orleans on his journey westward to New Mexico. A young Spanish priest named Antonio Severo Borrajo happened to be in New Orleans, and his chance meeting…
By Rick Hendricks Soccer probably got its start in New Mexico at Camp Cody, near Deming. In mid-July 1917, the War Department designated National Guard troops from the Midwest to form the United States Army's 34th Infantry Division and selected Camp Cody for training the division. In January 1918…
By Rick Hendricks They called themselves the Roswell Lions-Hondo Little League All-Stars, and in August 1956 they were the champions of world. To qualify for the World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, the boys from Roswell, New Mexico, first had to win the district tournament for Southeastern New Mexico; the…
