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1938 NEW MEXICO magazine articles, color photos, history, people etc
1938 NEW MEXICO magazine articles, color photos, history, people etc
1938 NEW MEXICO magazine articles, color photos, history, people etc
1938 NEW MEXICO magazine articles, color photos, history, people etc
1938 NEW MEXICO magazine articles, color photos, history, people etc
1938 NEW MEXICO magazine articles, color photos, history, people etc
1938 NEW MEXICO magazine articles, color photos, history, people etc
1938 NEW MEXICO magazine articles, color photos, history, people etc
1938 NEW MEXICO magazine articles, color photos, history, people etc
1938 NEW MEXICO magazine articles, color photos, history, people etc
1938 NEW MEXICO magazine articles, color photos, history, people etc
1938 NEW MEXICO magazine articles, color photos, history, people etc

1938 NEW MEXICO magazine articles, color photos, history, people etc

$ 4.28

Availability: 15 in stock
  • Type: magazine article
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

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    Selling are 2 magazine articles from 1938
    New Mexico
    Title: New Mexico Melodrama
    Author: Frederick Simpich
    Quoting the first page “Baxter, my partner, lay dead where he fell when the Apaches first fired into our camp-his head close to our bean pot.
    "The Indians had caught and tied me, and were going to burn me. Squaws crowded around; they spit tobacco juice into my eyes and stuck me in the arms and stomach with cactus thorns."
    So James McKenna told me, long years after his escape from these Apaches. Later he sat in the New Mexico Legislature, and wrote a book about his hair-raising career as meat hunter, Indian fighter, and gold seeker in this extraordinary State whose polyglot culture and melodramatic annals distinguish it from others in our Union.
    To any pioneer like McKenna you might say, "What part did you play in making New Mexico?" And he, too, might answer, "I survived!" The supreme achievement in earlier days!
    Vague fragment only, McKenna's adventure is among infinite theatrical episodes which enliven the story of this spectacular country. No State has staged events that seem more improbable; yet, despite cynics' claims that history is a conspiracy against truth, official records authenticate many an otherwise incredible incident.
    Take a trip, for example, out to that old Zuni town which lies south of Gallup, in the extreme west of the State. Today it is nothing but an agglomeration of terraced, mud-plastered houses. It was never anything else. Yet it was a very similar village, predecessor of this one, whose reported treasures led the first Spaniards to come here from Mexico, looking for the fabled Seven Golden Cities of Cibola!
    Visit Santa Fe, the capital-which was long the western terminus of that romantic highway, the Santa Fe Trail. Go into the Capitol here, and listen to the lawmakers talking; speech may be in either English or Spanish, for nearly everybody in the State, except newcomers, can speak some brand of Spanish, and thousands talk the Indian tongues.
    It all sounds very foreign, like Mexico, or Chile; yet, you reflect, this is a full-fledged State in our Union., Its population is less by far than that of Washington, D. C., and it has only one member in the House of Representatives; yet it has two Senators, whose votes are equal to the two senatorial votes of New York State, with more than 25 times its population.
    One Sunday I went to church in Albuquerque, to hear a bishop talk. He spoke of missions, and the souls of Indians.
    The very night before, in my bedroom at the Franciscan Hotel, I had been reading about Spanish priests and their work among the Indians-a record in keeping with the dramatic annals of New Mexico.
    Revolting in 1680, these Indians killed most of the Spaniards who by then had settled in the northern part of the State, and drove the rest south to EI Paso; they burnt churches, buried the bells and crucifixes; they shed their priest-given cognomens and called themselves by their old…”
    7” x 10”; 25 pages, 19 B&W photos plus map
    Title: Nature Paints New Mexico
    Photos by: Richard H. Stewart
    No text, just photo captions.
    7” x 10”; 16 pages, 25 color photos of people and places in New Mexico
    These are pages carefully removed from an actual 1938 magazine. No reprints or copies.
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