Download or read book Sunshine and Shadows in New Mexico s Past The statehood period 1912 Present written by Richard Melzer and published by Rio Grande Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2012 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards Winner, 2013 Lansing B. Bloom Award, Historical Society of NM Anthology, in collaboration with the Historical Society of New Mexico, covering the history of New Mexico, since statehood in 1912. Includes chapters on statehood, politics, law and order, mysteries, culture and counterculture, minorities, racism, women and children, health and science, infrastructure and sports.
Download or read book Sunshine and Shadows in New Mexico s Past The U S Territorial Period 1848 1912 written by Richard Melzer and published by Rio Grande Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sunshine and Shadows in New Mexico's Past is the Historical Society of New Mexico's three-volume gift to New Mexico as the state celebrates its centennial year of statehood in 2012: Volume 1: Th e Spanish Colonial and Mexican Periods, 1540-1848 Volume 2: Th e U.S. Territorial Period, 1848-1912 Volume 3: Th e Statehood Era, 1912-2012 Sunshine and Shadows in New Mexico's Past has one main goal: to reveal the sharp contrasts in New Mexico history. As with all states, New Mexico has had its share of admirable as well as deplorable moments, neither of which should be exaggerated or ignored at the other's expense. Th e 47th star on the American fl ag represents a proud and beautiful state. Let its light shine through these pages and into a promising future. This is an Official New Mexico Centennial Project.
Download or read book Sunshine and Shadows in New Mexico s Past The consequences of statehood in New Mexico history written by Richard Melzer and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sunshine and Shadows in New Mexico s Past written by Richard Melzer and published by Rio Grande Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist, 2010 New Mexico Book Awards Anthology, in collaboration with the Historical Society of New Mexico, covering the history of the Southwest, especially Arizona and New Mexico, during the Spanish Colonial and Mexican periods, 1540 to 1848. Includes chapters on the 17th century, race relations, gender roles, hispanic wills and burials, framing, ranching, hunting and the military.
Download or read book The New Deal s Forest Army written by Benjamin F. Alexander and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the Civilian Conservation Corps constructed, rejuvenated, and protected American forests and parks at the height of the Great Depression. Propelled by the unprecedented poverty of the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established an array of massive public works programs designed to provide direct relief to America’s poor and unemployed. The New Deal’s most tangible legacy may be the Civilian Conservation Corps’s network of parks, national forests, scenic roadways, and picnic shelters that still mark the country’s landscape. CCC enrollees, most of them unmarried young men, lived in camps run by the Army and worked hard for wages (most of which they had to send home to their families) to preserve America’s natural treasures. In The New Deal’s Forest Army, Benjamin F. Alexander chronicles how the corps came about, the process applicants went through to get in, and what jobs they actually did. He also explains how the camps and the work sites were run, how enrollees spent their leisure time, and how World War II brought the CCC to its end. Connecting the story of the CCC with the Roosevelt administration’s larger initiatives, Alexander describes how FDR’s policies constituted a mixed blessing for African Americans who, even while singled out for harsh treatment, benefited enough from the New Deal to become an increasingly strong part of the electorate behind the Democratic Party. The CCC was the only large-scale employment program whose existence FDR foreshadowed in speeches during the 1932 campaign—and the dearest to his heart throughout the decade that it lasted. Alexander reveals how the work itself left a lasting imprint on the country’s terrain as the enrollees planted trees, fought forest fires, landscaped public parks, restored historic battlegrounds, and constructed dams and terraces to prevent floods. A uniquely detailed exploration of life in the CCC, The New Deal’s Forest Army compellingly demonstrates how one New Deal program changed America and gave birth to both contemporary forestry and the modern environmental movement.
Download or read book Jack M Campbell written by Jack M. Campbell and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack M. Campbell (1916–1999) was elected governor of New Mexico in 1962 and reelected in 1964, the first New Mexico governor in twelve years to win a second term. In this engaging autobiography, Campbell traces his life story across major historical events in the country and New Mexico. From humble beginnings on the plains of Kansas through his career as an FBI agent and his first days practicing law in Albuquerque, Campbell writes of his early attraction to the beauty and culture of New Mexico. After serving in the US Marine Corps in World War II, he returned to New Mexico and devoted himself to improving the state’s political and economic circumstances as a legislator, governor, and private citizen. Through a series of impressive accomplishments, he succeeded in bringing the state fully into the twentieth century. Campbell truly was New Mexico’s first modern governor.
Download or read book New Mexico s Quest for Statehood 1846 1912 written by Robert W. Larson and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did New Mexico remain so long in political limbo before being admitted to the Union as a state? Combining extensive research and a clear and well-organized style, Robert W. Larson provides the answers to this question in a thorough and comprehensive account of the territory's extraordinary six-decade struggle for statehood. This book is no mere chronology of political moves, however. It is the history of a turbulent frontier state, sweeping into the current almost every colorful character of the territory. Not only politicians but ranchers, outlaws, soldiers, newspapermen, Indians, merchants, lawyers, and people from every walk of life were involved. This is a book for the reader who is interested in any aspect of southwestern territorial history.
Download or read book Statehood for New Mexico 1888 1912 written by Robert Walter Larson and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Come to New Mexico the Sunshine State written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Forty Seventh Star written by David V. Holtby and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-09-28 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Mexico was ceded to the United States in 1848, at the end of the war with Mexico, but not until 1912 did President William Howard Taft sign the proclamation that promoted New Mexico from territory to state. Why did New Mexico’s push for statehood last sixty-four years? Conventional wisdom has it that racism was solely to blame. But this fresh look at the history finds a more complex set of obstacles, tied primarily to self-serving politicians. Forty-Seventh Star, published in New Mexico’s centennial year, is the first book on its quest for statehood in more than forty years. David V. Holtby closely examines the final stretch of New Mexico’s tortuous road to statehood, beginning in the 1890s. His deeply researched narrative juxtaposes events in Washington, D.C., and in the territory to present the repeated collisions between New Mexicans seeking to control their destiny and politicians opposing them, including Republican U.S. senators Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana and Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island. Holtby places the quest for statehood in national perspective while examining the territory’s political, economic, and social development. He shows how a few powerful men brewed a concoction of racism, cronyism, corruption, and partisan politics that poisoned New Mexicans’ efforts to join the Union. Drawing on extensive Spanish-language and archival sources, the author also explores the consequences that the drive to become a state had for New Mexico’s Euro-American, Nuevomexicano, American Indian, African American, and Asian communities. Holtby offers a compelling story that shows why and how home rule mattered—then and now—for New Mexicans and for all Americans.
Download or read book The Final Years of New Mexico s Struggle for Statehood 1907 1912 written by Dorothy Eargle Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Land of Sunshine written by New Mexico. Bureau of Immigration and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Evolution of Conservative Statehood written by Jay R. Gentry Ortiz and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Voices from the Past written by Robert J. Tórrez and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Voices From The Past" is presented in three parts. The first is a series of columns that tell of places, people and events during the Spanish (1598-1821) and Mexican (1821-1846) eras of New Mexico history. These stories range from the mundane, such as the formal contract for a horse race held in 1846 (the results of which remain unknown); the building of a bridge over the Rio Grande and the regulations for branding livestock, to the serious business of the orderly succession of the Office of Governor during the Mexican era and the unknown fate of six Apache captives in the early 18th century. Part two extends the theme of people, places and events into our Territorial period (1846-1912), although a few expend that time line beyond 1912, into early statehood. Part three covers a wide variety of stories about the men and women we learn about because they got into trouble with the law. These stories are taken from a broad variety of archival sources found at the state archives, including the extensive penal papers found in the records of New Mexico's territorial-era governors and the district courts, as well as reports of crime and punishment found in period newspapers. It is great fun to come across a newspaper story on a crime, be it a robbery or murder, and then find an associated record of indictment, trail, and sentence (as well as acquittals) in the archives' district court records, and subsequently, as in the 1893 case of José D. Gallegos, the subject of the Penitentiary of New Mexico's first "mug shot," records of incarceration in the territorial penitentiary. The fifty-four columns in this volume are but a small sample of those stories that we hope will not only entertain, but enhance the reader's knowledge and appreciation of New Mexico's extraordinary past."--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book New Mexico s Quest for Statehood 1864 1912 written by Robert W. Larson and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dividing New Mexico s Waters 1700 1912 written by John O. Baxter and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveyed in this book are two centuries of struggles over water rights. Most conflicts have occurred when someone suddenly seized and redirected the flow of water away from another user. Usually disputes were resolved through an appeal process, but these often followed ditch-bank fights punctuated by blows from shovels.
Download or read book New Mexico s Struggle for Statehood Sixty Years of Effort to Obtain Self Government written by Le Baron Bradford Prince and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVII. JOINT STATEHOOD MOVEMENT OF 1906. That the idea of Joint-Statehood for New Mexico and Arizona was distasteful in both territories, there is no doubt. There was good reason for this. It was not caused by any ill feeling in either of the Territories toward the other, but because there was an entire lack of cohesion and community of interest. They were more disconnected, so far as personal acquaintance and business or social relations go, than most States far more distant from each other. Nature itself had separated them by placing the great Continental Divide as a practical barrier between them. The rivers of New Mexico flow eastward or southward to the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic; those of Arizona flow westward to the Gulf of California and the Pacific. The trade and business relations of Arizona are with California and the Pacific coast, those of New Mexico are with Kansas City, St. Louis, Chicago, and New York. As a rule no New Mexican visits Arizona except en route to California; and no citizen of Arizona visits New Mexico except en roiite to the east; and those visits are simply en passant. The number of residents of either Territory who have ever passed a night in the other, except in a railroad car, is remarkably small. In short, there is less connection between the two than there is between either one of them and New York or California. It seemed impossible for the eastern mind to grasp this elemental fact. The average eastern Congressman, knowing that each Territory was anxious for Statehood, and really unfavorable to an increase of western States, looked at the map, saw two squares contiguous to each other, and instantly found a satisfactory solution of the difficulty by saying: "Why not join them together and...
