Gateway to Glorieta - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gateway to Glorieta write by Lynn Irwin Perrigo. This book was released on 2010. Gateway to Glorieta available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Perrigo addresses issues in the development of Las Vegas and the American Southwest that remain quite relevant in the 21st century. Among these is an increased socio-cultural diversity that impacts the hegemony of this population and its effects on intercultural relations.
Honor and Defiance
Honor and Defiance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Honor and Defiance write by James Bailey Blackshear. This book was released on 2015-03-10. Honor and Defiance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1835, a petition for land far from Santa Fe, New Mexico was awarded to pobladores (settlers) willing to relocate to the eastern edge of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Founded along the Gallinas River, the settlement became the Las Vegas Land Grant. The history of this grant is the history of New Mexico. On this 496,000 acre community grant, beliefs about land and faith were intertwined within a system of shared sacredness. In the 1890s, Anglo-American merchants and cattlemen joined with Hispano elites in the first concerted effort to wrest control of this grant from its original owners and heirs. The heart of this book investigates how a rural nuevo-mexicano (New Mexican) movement on the Las Vegas Land Grant evolved from burning barns and cutting fences to political activism and success at the ballot box. It also examines the history of New Mexico land grants, Hispano mountain culture, the origination of the town footprint, the boom of Territorial Las Vegas, and the cultural diversity that existed within the two distinct towns that emerged when the railroad came to Las Vegas in 1879. Honor and Defiance details the impact of American expansion into a well-established Hispano urban center, and highlights the robust nature of nuevo-mexicano spirit, determination, and ingenuity on the Las Vegas Land Grant. The book also includes photographs of Las Vegas, leaders of the period, and the land they fought for.
Defender of the Underdog
Defender of the Underdog - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Defender of the Underdog write by Harvey Ferguson. This book was released on 2023-10-01. Defender of the Underdog available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1932, the worst year of the Great Depression, more than twenty thousand mostly homeless World War I veterans trekked to the nation’s capital to petition Congress to grant them early payment of a promised bonus. The Hoover Administration and the local government urged Washington, DC, police chief Pelham Glassford to forcefully drive this “bonus army” out of the city. Instead, he defied both governments for months and found food and shelter for the veterans until Congress voted on their request. Glassford’s efforts to persuade federal and local officials to deal sympathetically with the protesters were ultimately in vain, but his proposed solutions, though disregarded by his supervisors, demonstrate that compassion and empathy could be more effective ways of dealing with radical protests than violent suppression.
Pecos National Historic General Management Plan (GMP) and Development Concept Plan, San Miguel County, Santa Fe County
Pecos National Historic General Management Plan (GMP) and Development Concept Plan, San Miguel County, Santa Fe County - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pecos National Historic General Management Plan (GMP) and Development Concept Plan, San Miguel County, Santa Fe County write by . This book was released on 1996. Pecos National Historic General Management Plan (GMP) and Development Concept Plan, San Miguel County, Santa Fe County available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Chasing the Cure in New Mexico
Chasing the Cure in New Mexico - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chasing the Cure in New Mexico write by Nancy Owen Lewis. This book was released on 2016-05-01. Chasing the Cure in New Mexico available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book tells the story of the thousands of “health seekers” who journeyed to New Mexico from 1880 to 1940 seeking a cure for tuberculosis (TB), the leading killer in the United States at the time. By 1920 such health seekers represented an estimated 10 percent of New Mexico’s population. The influx of “lungers” as they were called—many of whom remained in New Mexico—would play a critical role in New Mexico’s struggle for statehood and in its growth. Nearly sixty sanatoriums were established around the state, laying the groundwork for the state’s current health-care system. Among New Mexico’s prominent lungers were artists Will Shuster and Carlos Vierra, who “came to heal and stayed to paint.” Bronson Cutting, brought to Santa Fe on a stretcher in 1910, became the influential publisher of the Santa Fe New Mexican and a powerful U.S Senator. Others included William R. Lovelace and Edgar T. Lassetter, founders of the Lovelace Clinic, as well as Senator Clinton P. Anderson, poet Alice Corbin Henderson, architect John Gaw Meem, aviator Katherine Stinson, and Dorothy McKibben, gatekeeper for the Manhattan Project. New Mexico’s most infamous outlaw, Billy the Kid, first arrived in New Mexico when his mother, Catherine Antrim, sought treatment in Silver City.
