1826 Thomas F. Bowler By Rick Hendricks, Ph.D. Born in Virginia about 1826, Thomas F. Bowler was living in Santa Fe in mid-December 1850 when the United States Federal Census was enumerated. At the time of the census, Bowler was described as a clerk living in the same household…
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…
