New Mexico Historical Encyclopedia
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491_9781936744510
The New Mexico Historical Encyclopedia puts New Mexicos history and locations all in one book and provides a brief description of over 700 events and places in the Land of Enchantment - each accompanied by a bibliography which is intended to provide the names of books and other references that offer more information. This Encyclopedia gives a historical look at New Mexico - what is written about New Mexico and what events and locations played a part in its history. The Encyclopedia is intended to show that New Mexico history is original, exciting and interesting.In publishing this volume, New Mexico Centennial Author Don Bullis continues a long and distinguished history of such works in New Mexico. Earlier notable examples of biographical dictionaries include volumes three and four of Ralph Emerson Twitchells The Leading Facts of New Mexico History (1917) and the third volume of Frank D. Reeves History of New Mexico (1961), which he subtitled Family and Personal History. Bullis, himself, has published a biographical dictionary of people in New Mexicos history.Readers of Bullis New Mexico biographical dictionary will know what to expect with this one: a delightfully eclectic selection of participants in the parade of notables who have passed through the pages of history here in the Land of Enchantment. Men and women from all walks of life and from most every ethnic group present in the state through the centuries stroll by. Because the author is an acknowledged expert on lawmen in New Mexico, men who have worn a badge, lawyers, and judges are fully considered in this volume. So, too, are those who operated on the other side of the law and even some of their victims. Military men and politicians are also particularly well represented. But you are just as likely to find a man of the cloth, a musician, an athlete or and artist whose story will surprise.I have no doubt that this volume will be the starting place for many people seeking to make the acquaintance
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