Bound for Posterity
Photograph courtesy Barbara Waters. The Man Who Killed the Deer: A Novel of Pueblo Indian Life (1942) By Frank Waters Considered Frank Waters' masterpiece—in a body of work that also includes Book of…
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Category: January
Tamalewood Film Fiesta
The state’s film history begins with Indian Day School (1898), a 50-second strip created by the Edison Manufacturing Company when New Mexico was still a territory. The simple film shows Native…
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Singing New Mexico's Praises
O, Fair New Mexico (1917) Five years after a prolonged struggle to obtain statehood, New Mexico defined its identity, pride, and optimism by choosing this as the state song. Written by Elizabeth…
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Good Old-Fashioned Saloons
They include rough saloons that catered to miners, polished hotel bars for traveling merchants, and flashing-neon honky-tonks to attract Route 66 tourists. The Buckhorn Saloon & Opera House When its…
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A Legend, Going Strong
The inn on Santa Fe’s Plaza was a popular landmark at the end of the Santa Fe Trail through the Mexican-American War, Civil War, and the Topeka Santa Fe Railroad expansion. Today, its architecture…
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Why Albuquerque?
PEOPLE ALL OVER THE COUNTRY are always saying to me: “You travel constantly and have been all over America and have seen all the nice places to live, so you choose Albuquerque out of the whole United…
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