A. A. Carter WPA Writer In a dormer window on the east side of the oldest housed in Belen (Valencia County), owned and occupied by Honorable Ramon Baca y Chavez, Justice of the Peace and Police Judge for many years, is found a most unusual religious phenomena which takes…
Summertime in East Pecos, for George, Sadie, Trini and me was exciting and full of adventure. We were getting so good at choza building that I bet them all I would finish first. . Once we finished them we would pretend each one of…
W. B. Lane, Brevet Lieutenant Colonel The United States Service, April 1894, Vol. XI. N. S.–No. 4 I want to try to show, by this paper, how a hunter can have an interesting and exciting day without killing game, or even getting a shot—that is, if he is in…
By Estevan Rael-Galvez My dad is one of the hardest workers I have ever known. He has never been a religious man, but to know him is to recognize a deep spirituality, literally grounding his belief in the tangible world around him, combined with a type of faith that…
Every Sunday the men would gather on the back porch of Uncle Evan’s house known as El Retrace . They would take in the sun against an adobe wall as they spoke of starting the spring plowing. About three o’clock more men gathered with musical instruments and did a bit of…
By Alice Bullock There was no ladder on the ranch, nor was there any white paint, but there was the ten-foot high Cross on the west wing of the Morley ranch house near Datil. It had not been there the day before, but the next morning, there it was….
Fort Fauntleroy, now Ft. Wingate, was taking its ease one warm October afternoon in the fall of 1861. A group of men were idly chatting in Dr. Cavanaugh's store. Among the group were Jose B. Sena, Captain of Co. A, Aniceto Abeyta, Adjutant of the Regiment, Manuel Pino and….
The Prendorio "If you don’t mind telling me, I should like to hear about your engagement and wedding. For I think the old Spanish engagements were very romantic.” “You refer to the prendorio, or engagement announcement. I think we took marriage more seriously in the old days. As, no…
By James E. Wilmarth During the early days of trucking in New Mexico, an incident occurred that changed the way trucking operations would be conducted in New Mexico. This single afternoon’s events would set in motion changes that would alter how sleeper operations would be conducted for all time….
as told by Patricio Gallegos Stories of William Eckert and Juan Maria Gallegos, retold by J. P. Batchen Whenever men gathered along the old Santa Fe Trail and told of tales they had heard of New Mexico, there was repeated by someone, the legend of the old Montezuma Mine…
