About This Book
A mountain community in southwestern New Mexico is described through its landscape, prehistoric traces, and early Mexican-era gold workings that drew prospectors. The account follows the arrival of Anglo settlers, cycles of mining booms and company changes, and the resulting economic fluctuations. Everyday life and civic institutions are sketched via schools, churches, family networks, medical care and health-seeking visitors, and communal celebrations and dances. The narrative also notes ranching and mining labor patterns, transient and company personnel, and the collection of photographs and memories that record how local traditions and adaptations carried the settlement from its mining origins into a small modern community.
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