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Author: Jon Hunner Publisher: Sunstone Press ISBN: 0865346275 Category : Mesilla Valley (N.M.) Languages : en Pages : 110
Book Description
Historic photos from local archives and contemporary pictures show how people lived, worked, and played in this oasis in the Chihuahuan desert. This book continues the efforts by the Public History Program at New Mexico State University to publish local histories.
Author: Jon Hunner Publisher: Sunstone Press ISBN: 0865346275 Category : Mesilla Valley (N.M.) Languages : en Pages : 110
Book Description
Historic photos from local archives and contemporary pictures show how people lived, worked, and played in this oasis in the Chihuahuan desert. This book continues the efforts by the Public History Program at New Mexico State University to publish local histories.
Author: Mary Armstrong Publisher: ISBN: 9781737154549 Category : Languages : en Pages :
Book Description
At 14 years old, Jesus 'Chuy' Perez Contreras Verazzi Messi is too small and frail to work the land on the family farm near the Rio Bravo in Mexico. The local padre's tutoring reveals Jesus's unending curiosity and fertile mind. Noted Las Cruces, New Mexico attorney, and politician Colonel Albert Jennings Fountain, agrees to take his nephew under his wing. Jesus 'reads law' with his uncle and shares adventures and adversity with the Fountain family and other historic Mesilla and Tularosa Valley citizens. His coming-of-age story will take you into the wild southwest, a brewing range war, a territory struggling toward statehood, courtroom dramas, and the adventures and adversities of a boy's quest for manhood.
Author: William S. Kiser Publisher: Texas A&M University Press ISBN: 1603442960 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 305
Book Description
The mid-nineteenth century was a tumultuous yet formative time for the Mesilla Valley, home to present-day Las Cruces, New Mexico. With the coming of the U.S. Army to Mexican territory in 1846, the region became the site of a continent-shaping power struggle between two rival nations. When Mexican governor Manuel Armijo unexpectedly fled Santa Fe, he left the New Mexico territory undefended, and it fell to forces under Brigadier General Stephen Watts Kearny in a bloodless occupation. In the ensuing two decades, the southern portion of New Mexico's Rio Grande Valley played a prominent role in the conflict that overtook the infant American territory. In Turmoil on the Rio Grande, William S. Kiser has mined primary archives and secondary materials alike to tell the story of those rough-and-tumble years and to highlight the effect the region had in the developing U.S. empire of the West. Kiser carefully limns in the culture into which the U.S. soldiers inserted themselves before going on to describe the armed forces that arrived and the actions in which they were involved. From the thirty-minute Battle of Brazito—in which the greenhorn recruits of the 1st Regiment of Missouri Volunteers, led by Col. Alexander Doniphan, vanquished Mexican troops through superior technology—to the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, the international boundary disputes, and the Confederate victory at Fort Fillmore, Kiser deftly describes the actions that made the Mesilla Valley important in American history.
Author: Paxton P. Price Publisher: ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 364
Book Description
Seventy-two biographical vignettes of those who settled in southern New Mexico Territory from 1823 until statehood in 1912 portray the men who shaped the economic, political and social life of a portion of the Territory largely ignored by the government in the northern portion of the Territory.
Author: Jon Hunner
Author: Jon Hunner
Author: Mary Armstrong
Author: Theron M. Trumbo
Author: Maude Elizabeth McFie
Author: Charles Cormany
Author: Jean Braden
Author: Christopher Bradley Schurtz
Author: William S. Kiser
Author: Paxton P. Price
Author: Mesilla Valley Irrigation Colony