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Crescit eundo, it grows at it goes, has been the motto of New Mexico since 1851 when the territorial seal was first designated….

Crediting an invention to any particular individual has its pitfalls. Most, if not all inventions are based to some extent on work already…

Ninety-seven years after the Court of Private Land Claims (CPLC) completed its work to settle Spanish and Mexican land grants the issue is…

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…