by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 11, 2023
Sallie Chisum Robert, who came to be known as the “First Lady of Artesia,” was 19 when she arrived from Texas at her Uncle John Chisum’s Jinglebob Land and Livestock Company ranch south of Roswell. Her ranching skills rivaled those of the cowboys she joined driving...
by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 11, 2023
Born on January 11, 1921 to Juanita Candelaria and Nevarez Garcia de Aranda in Albuquerque, Clarita Garcia de Aranda grew up in a large musical family, with five sisters and three brothers. In a 1988 interview, she said she learned to dance “when I knew my left foot...
by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 11, 2023
In the mid-1970s, when many young Chicano teenagers were protesting, attending college, or working for family businesses, a flowering music scene was blossoming in the central Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico. Starting in the 1950s, a blend of music from Mexico in the...
by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 11, 2023
Katherine Stinson Otero was the fourth American woman to earn a pilot’s license and the first female skywriter. She overcame pioneering aviator Max Lillie’s reluctance to teach her to fly, and became the “Flying Schoolgirl,” nicknamed for her youthful looks, small...
by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 11, 2023
In 1922, two years after women gained the right to vote, Soledad Chávez de Chacón was elected Secretary of State, the first Hispanic woman to hold statewide office in New Mexico and the country. She descended from a family of territorial governors and office holders,...
by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 11, 2023
Myra Ellen Jenkins was born on September 26, 1916, in Elizabeth, Colorado, to Lewis Harlan Jenkins and Minnie (Ackroyd) Jenkins. Growing up in the Black Forest region, southeast of Denver and northeast of Colorado Springs, she was part of a family of homesteaders. She...
