Month: March 2009

Mark Twain once said: "A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval." To this end I believe that every now and then…

It is the theory that decides what can be observed. Albert Einstein

What men want is not knowledge, but certainty. Bertrand Russell

In the April 2006 issue of the Southwestern Historical Quarterly appeared an article by Ralph H. Brock entitled Perhaps the Most Incorrect of…

New Mexicos 179.47 miles of international boundary are the result of the Gadsden Treaty of 1853. The line was originally surveyed in 1855…

Since our societys founding on October 30, 1959 infrequent newsletters were sent to the members, sometimes many months and even years apart. BENCHMARKS…

New Mexicans are not astounded by large land ownership and most of them like the vast untrammeled areas of open space made possible…

Permanent Hispanic settlement in todays Arizona did not take place until 1752, when a presidio was established at Tubac, only to be relocated…

Angles are mostly acute and obtuse, Bearings in snowstorms are easy to lose. Compass is useful by day and by night, Degrees can…

In 1882 the German scholar of Antiquities Dr. Oskar Seyffert published a dictionary that was tranlated into English under the title: The Dictionary…