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Biography of Alfred Alexander Freeman, noted politician and judge. Alfred Alexander Freeman was born in Tennessee on Feb. 7, 1838, and by 1859 had been admitted to the practice of law. He enjoyed a successful political career in Tennessee, elected several times to the state legislature and losing a…
Life with New Mexico’s Mule King By Arleen Gaba It was February of 1961 when I arrived in New Mexico with my two-month-old son. I had left the verdant valleys of northern California to join my husband and begin our life together on his grandfather's ranch, two hours north…
by J. J. Bowden Juan Jose Sanchez, the Jefe Politico of El Paso del Norte, petitioned Guadalupe Miranda, Commissioner of Emigration, for a league of land located on the west bank of the Rio Grande River between Refugio Civil Colony and the Santa Teresa Grant. Sanchez stated that he…
by J. J. Bowden Romulo Barela, an influential citizen of El Paso del Norte, petitioned Commissioner of Emigration, Guadalupe Miranda, for a league of land lying west of the Rio Grande River between the Miranda and Santa Teresa Grants. Barela stated that he desired to plant an orchard on…
by J. J. Bowden A deep sense of patriotism prompted Guadalupe Miranda who, in 1846, was Governor Manuel Armijo’s private secretary and also Secretary of the Department of New Mexico, to move from Santa Fe to El Paso del Norte following General Stephen W. Kearny’s conquest of New Mexico….
by J. J. Bowden Jose Manuel Sanchez Baca was one of the wealthy patriotic New Mexicans who elected to retain his Mexican citizenship after the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. At his own expense, he transported his family, peons, and some 6,000 sheep from New Mexico to…
by J. J. Bowden After the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, numerous residents of New Mexico, who did not desire to become citizens of the United States, moved to Mexico. Many of these emigrants settled in the area west of the Rio Grande River in…
by J. J. Bowden The Village of Refugio de los Amoles, like Mesilla and Santo Tomas, was established in 1850 by fifty families of Mexican citizens, who elected to be repatriated after their native lands were ceded to the United States under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Shortly after…
by J. J. Bowden Sometime prior to the year 1790, a four‑league tract of land situated on the west bank of the Rio Grande River, the southeast corner of which was located about seven miles northwest of El Paso del Norte, Mexico, was granted to Francisco Garcia, the military…
by J. J. Bowden The Doña Ana Bend Colony and its land grant has played a leading role in the history of the Mesilla Valley of New Mexico. Doña Ana, the initial settlement on the grant and the oldest permanent settlement in the valley was founded in 1843, upon…
