New Mexico -- History
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
Eve Ball papers
Collection includes research, publications, business records, and photographs which Eve Ball used in her day-to-day life.
Collection on New Mexican territorial history
Photocopies of handwritten and printed receipts, wills, correspondence, royal decrees, proclamations, pronouncements, grants, certificates, reports, licenses, orders, inventories, petitions, claims, and requests. The items were created mainly by New Mexican government officials and persons connected with local and territorial governments of that area.
Maurice G. Fulton letters
Three typed and signed letters dated August/Sept. 1931. These items are addressed to the Associated Press in Santa Fe, New Mexico and discuss findings and research by Fulton about Billy the Kid (William H. Bonney). Included in the letters are typescripts of materials from newspapers and letters concerning the Kid.
Attested copy of correspondence
George P. Hammond papers
Primary source materials relating to the New Southwest part of the United States including the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Louisiana, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah. Also included are materials on Mexico. The materials are in English and Spanish, and many relate to the settlement of the area by people of European descent and to the Indians.
Franklin Hill Harris reminiscence
Bernard John Dowling Irwin correspondence and diary
Handwritten and signed letter and diary. This letter is addressed to Captain Edward L. Hartz and is dated April 17, 1856. It discusses a military march through the Rio Grande Valley and life in and around Fort Union, New Mexico. The diary, kept from 1855-1856, records Irwin's journey from New York to Corpus Christi, Texas, abroad the steamship Prometheus and his overland march to Fort Filmore via a number of military forts.
Lily Klasner papers
Book drafts, correspondence, notices, court transcripts, newspaper clippings, political pamphlets, poetry in English and Spanish, and certificates. The materials relate to Klasner's research for her autobiography, "My Girlhood Among Outlaws," and her biography of John Chisum, "Baron of the Pecos."
Lucien Bonaparte Maxwell indenture
Handwritten and printed indenture leasing a section of river property to James Sullivan for mining purposes.
Henry Schnautz letters
A collection of correspondence from Eve Ball to Henry Shcnautz from 1965-1980, discussing personal dealings, assosciations, and the affairs of the Mescalero Apache Tribe, with whom Ball was closely assosciated.