Author: Fred Roeder, LS

Whatever one may want to call the historic leaders of New Mexico, empire builders they were not. Oñate could have laid the groundwork…

[Note: To avoid confusion with modern units of measure of like name all equivalents are given either in millimeter (mm) or U.S. Survey…

Among the many historical treasures of the Fray Angélico Chávez History Library in Santa Fe are diaries and other papers of John A….

"He never seemed much interested in returning to Ohio. He had learned to speak Laguna."   —Leslie Marmon Silko*                                        When I dig into…

The oldest published map of what was to become New Mexico can be found in an atlas published in 1597 by Cornelius Wytfliet,…

In 1988 Gilbert Chaves of Las Cruces, in conjunction with NMPS (then NMASM) Southern Rio Grande Chapter, researched the location of the south…

New Mexico’s boundary with Texas is commonly referred to as the “Clark boundary”. This designation ignores the fact that most of the surveying…

Anybody that likes John Wayne movies will love Jack Hays. In San Antonio he was called "a gentleman of purest character and of…