Images from New Mexico

Deming, New Mexico, has been an essential stop for transcontinental travelers for centuries. First, wagon roads went through the area in service of the Butterfield Overland Mail Company. On the same route, Fort Cummings was established for the protection of these wagon trains. Later, Deming marked the site of the joining of the Southern Pacific Railroad and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway, which created the second transcontinental railroad in March 1881. This attracted numerous entrepreneurs and settlers to Deming. The railroad was also significant in the establishment of two military installations, Camp Cody (World War I) and Deming Army Air Field (World War II). After the war, Highway 70-80 brought many tourists to Deming until Interstate 10 was built in the 1960s. Deming's location, along with the railroad and highway system, created an economic climate that has brought people to the area for centuries in search of their place in the American West.

Historical photographs of: Fort Cummings c.1882, railroad workers, Southern Pacific freight depot, Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe roundhouse, Union Station and Park, Harvey House, President William McKinley whistle-stop 1901, Liberty Bell on rail tour 1915, President Harry Truman whistle-stop 1948, Deming in the early 1900s, Joseph A. Mahoney, Mahoney Building, Luna County Courthouse, Central School, Deming Skeet Club c.1908, Bank of Deming, Deming Headlight newspaper offices, Deming Graphic newspaper offices, Pancho Villa, Camp Brookes, Camp Cody, National Guard Armory, Camp Mirage, Deming Army Air Field, Nacio Herb Brown, Bataan Death March survivors, aerial photograph of Deming c. 1959, Ray Cash (father of Johnny Cash).

Now the headquarters of the Jicarilla Apache, Dulce (meaning "sweet" in Spanish) was named by the impoverished and relocated Indians who associated the place with the sugar and candy that came with government-supplied rations. Since the establishment of the reservation in 1887, Dulce has become the hub of everything associated with the Jicarillas. From the early timber operations, farming, and livestock raising, the Jicarilla Apache have become an economic powerhouse of northern New Mexico. Dulce is now a community living in two worlds, fully immersed in the American mainstream economy with a world-class hunting lodge, significant oil and gas operations, and widely diversified investments while fiercely maintaining the centuries-old language, culture, religion, and ceremonies of Jicarilla Apache Indians.

"In the early years of this century, William Pennington and Lisle Updike roamed the Four Corners area of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona, photographing people and landscapes. They traveled on horseback, by narrow gauge railroad, horse-drawn wagon, or Model T Fords, sometimes working together from the studio they shared in Durango, sometimes working alone. They went to mining camps in the nearby San Juan Mountains as well as to the Navajo, Jicarilla, Apache, Acoma, and Zuni Indian reservations."

Historical photographs of the Jicarilla Apache around Dulce, c. 1909.