By Thomas Shumaker, PhD By 1914, when war began in Europe, New Mexico had only been a state for just two years. Despite the relative freshness of its entry into the Union, it was nevertheless open to the wider world, as it always had been. Chinese immigrants had come to…
4 1917 She was known as “the Queen of the Fleet,” and her story still commands our respect. From her launch in April 1917 to the end of her service in 1946, she was the finest battleship of the Pacific fleet. Christened with champagne and the waters of the…
1886 The Ranger and the Saboteur By John P. Wilson Las Cruces, New Mexico We think of the sheriffs and U.S. Marshals of the Old West as the men who brought law to the mesquite in early-day New Mexico. However, what about up in the ponderosas, among the occasional…
