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…
6 14 1870 By Mark B. Thompson Having served as the last Chief Justice of the territorial Supreme Court and the first federal judgeafter New Mexico achieved statehood, William H. Pope has a unique place in New Mexico history. Judge Pope may also be unique in that he twice,…
1916 By Michael Ann Sullivan Jack M. Campbell, served two terms as governor of New Mexico from 1963–1966. Campbell worked to increase money for education at all levels—often exhorting that education was the cornerstone for future progress in New Mexico. Campbell also stressed long-term economic development with an emphasis…
By John P. Wilson In its 11 May 1881 issue, the Santa Fe Daily New Mexican included the following intriguing paragraph regarding Billy the Kid: “Newman’s Semi-Weekly gives a long account of the Kid and his career, which is not very complimentary to the subject of the story. Some…
The proposed curriculum consisted of bilingual educational materials for children of Spanish descent, and the State Department of Education was to be responsible for developing texts and materials for English-speaking students. The bill proposed mandatory bilingual education in all school districts having fifty percent or more Hispano children. The…
Lawyer and banker of Clovis, NM, and had extensive agricultural interests throughout Curry County. Born in southwest Missouri, January 16, 1877, and attended public schools there and at the Southwest Baptist College at Bolivar, Mo., where he graduated with a bachelor of science degree in 1897. For another year…
8 21 1837 Judge Henry L. Warren, a prominent member of the bar of New Mexico, is an ex-Chief Justice of Montana, and is now the senior member of the well-known law firm of Warren & Fergusson of Albuquerque. As such he is entitled to some special consideration in…
7 26 1838 The Honorable Thomas Smith, one of the most illustrious citizens of the Territory of New Mexico, now serving in the exalted position of its Chief Justice, is a man whom to know is to honor. In all the relations of life, whether as lawyer, as Judge,…
Upon returning to Spain in 1493 after his first voyage, Christopher Columbus contacted Pope Alexander VI (a Spaniard by birth) to report his discoveries. Acting as the great European arbiter of the day, the pope then issued a bull (decree) that divided the New World lands between Spain and…
By William H. Wroth The outlaw called “Billy the Kid” was born Henry McCarty about 1859, possibly in New York City. By 1866 he was living with his widowed mother Catherine McCarty and elder brother Joseph McCarty in Marion County, Indiana. His mother soon took up with and eventually…
