Images from New Mexico
Images from New Mexico - Valencia County
Valencia County
Among the Cottonwoods by Timeline of selected historical events in New Mexico -- Early land grants and entrepreneurs -- Villages are established -- Familias ricas : their wealth and marriages -- Mariano Chavez and the beginning of Los Pinos -- Change and continuity with the Americans -- Adapting : the next generation of Oteros -- Religion : old traditions and new beliefs -- The villages are drawn into the Civil War -- Los Pinos and the military in the 1860s -- The 1870s and 1880s : a time of transition -- Division and cohesiveness : churches and schools -- On the grim side : disease, death, and violence -- José Francisco Chavez : a man of nineteenth century New Mexico -- Into the twentieth century -- The struggle of the 1920s and 1930s -- Epilogue -- Family Trees: Descendants of Dolores Perea. Descendants of Vicente Otero -- Appendix
Images from New Mexico - Vaughan
Vaughan
Backtracks: Time Travels through New Mexico by Photographs of New Mexico scenes--old and new, side-by-side. Los Chaves Hotel (Harvey House) c. 1919.
Images from New Mexico - Wagon Mound
Wagon Mound
- Backtracks: Time Travels through New Mexico by Photographs of New Mexico scenes--old and new, side-by-side.
Images from New Mexico - Weed
Images from New Mexico - White Oaks
White Oaks
Gold-mining boomtown : people of White Oaks, Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory by The town of White Oaks, New Mexico Territory, was born in 1879 when prospectors discovered gold at nearby Baxter Mountain. In Gold-Mining Boomtown, Roberta Key Haldane offers an intimate portrait of the southeastern New Mexico community by profiling more than forty families and individuals who made their homes there during its heyday. Today, fewer than a hundred people live in White Oaks. Its frontier incarnation, located a scant twenty-eight miles from the notorious Lincoln, is remembered largely because of its association with famous westerners. Billy the Kid and his gang were familiar visitors to the town. When a popular deputy was gunned down in 1880, the citizens resolved to rid their community of outlaws. Pat Garrett, running for sheriff of Lincoln County, was soon campaigning in White Oaks. But there was more to the town than gold mining and frontier violence. In addition to outlaws, lawmen, and miners, Haldane introduces readers to ranchers, doctors, saloonkeepers, and stagecoach owners. Jose Aguayo, a lawyer from an old Spanish family, defended Billy the Kid, survived the Lincoln County War, and moved to the White Oaks vicinity in 1890, where his family became famous for the goat cheese they sold to the town's elite. Readers also meet a New England sea captain and his wife (a Samoan princess, no less), a black entrepreneur, Chinese miners, "Cattle Queen of New Mexico" and an undertaker with an international criminal past. The White Oaks that Haldane uncovers - and depicts with lively prose and more than 250 photographs - is a microcosm of the Old West in its diversity and evolution from mining camp to thriving burg to the near-ghost town it is today. Anyone interested in the history of the Southwest will enjoy this richly detailed account.
Images from New Mexico - White Sands
White Sands
White Sands Missile Range by Since the official flag raising on July 9, 1945, the White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) has become an integral part of global defense for the United States. A mere week after formation, Project Trinity tested the first atomic bomb at an isolated site, which was 100 miles north on what was then part of the Alamogordo Bombing Range--a test site for B-17 pilots. Back at White Sands Proving Ground, as it was then named, personnel were unaware of the massive new weapon tested to their north. Instead their focus was upon the arrival of what would be 300 railroad cars of captured German V-2 rockets and associated equipment. Later that year, over 100 captured German scientists, among them Werner von Braun, would arrive at White Sands to assist in V-2 technology, launching America's race to space; tens of thousands of rockets and missiles have since been fired on the range. Thousands of family members also lived and worked at the range, and their stories can be found inside as well.
Images of: Aerobee, Athena, Corporal, Hermes, Little Joe, Nike, Patriot, Pershing, Sergeant, Terrier, and Tomahawk missiles; Redstone and Viking rockets; missile launches and tracking equipment; target drones; Trinity Site, Jumbo, the George McDonald ranch house, and scientists Norris Bradbury, Werner von Braun, and Clyde Tombaugh; Jack Benny and Ann Blyth; the visit of John F. Kennedy; V-2 rockets; the Space Shuttle; WSMR facilities and staff.
