New Mexico’s Fight for Statehood

“Morley’s Map of New Mexico Compiled from the Latest Government surveys and other reliable surveys
Ent. Acc. of Congress in the Year 1873 by Harry Whigham and G.A. Bushnell in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D.C.”

 

In 1939, the New Mexico Historical Review began publishing a series of essays written by University of New Mexico history professor Marion Dargan. Although each had its own area of emphasis and focus, at times even leaving the state, all focused on “New Mexico’s Fight for Statehood, 1895-1912.”

Part 1:  Political Leaders of the Latter Half of the 1890s and Statehood

Part 2:  The Attitude of the Territorial Press

Part 3:  Opposition With the Territory 1888 – 1890

Part 4:  Opposition with the Territory during the 1890s

Part 5:  The Silencing of the Opposition at Home

Part 6:  Advertising the “Backyard of the United States”

Part 7:  The Part Played by the Press of the Southwest