NEW MEXICO-ARIZONA
JOINT HISTORY CONVENTION

Convention Program

Convention Sponsors

THURSDAY, April 11

2:00 p.m. - Historical Society of New Mexico Board Meeting.

3:00 p.m.--7:30 p.m - Registration.
Location: Lobby.

Booksellers set up.
Location: Tularosa Room.

[Dinner on your own]

7:30 p.m. Keynote Speaker: Dr. Oscar Martínez, "The U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: From Alienation to Integration."
Location: Ballroom.

8:30 p.m.--10:00 p.m. Dessert Reception co-hosted by the Doña Ana County Historical Society.

FRIDAY, April 12

8:00 a.m.--5:00 p.m. - Registration. Location: Lobby.

Book Displays. Location: Tularosa Room.

8:30 a.m.--9:45 a.m.

Session lA: Spanish Borderlands.
Location: Ballroom.

Chair: Sandra Mathews-Lamb.

• Michael G. Stevenson, "Spanish Colonial Settlement Data Base and Web Site"
• Karl W. Laumbach, "Dating the Ruins at Espiritu San Augustine Ranch, New Mexico"
• Patricia Roche Herring, "Maria Gertrudis Elías González Ortiz de Urrea, 1780-1828"

Session 1B: Multicultural Experiences.
Location: San Rafael A.

Chair: Michael Amundson

• Heather D. Addis, "The Navajo Code Talkers: Culture and Difference in World War II"
• Christina Lance, "A Woman of Means: Rebecca Brewer"
• Bee Valvo, "`Go Get Dr. French': Emma French"

Session 1C: Silver and Copper Mining in Arizona and Other Portions of Doña Aña County, NM, 1848 to 1864.
Location: San Rafael B.

Chair: Homer Milford.

• James D. McBride and Homer E. Milford, "Silver Mining in Western Doña Ana County (Arizona), New Mexico Territory, 1848 to 1864"
• Robert Spude, "Texan Reach for a Copper Empire: Mining in the American Southwest, 1848-1864"
• Rick Hendricks, "The Hanover Copper Mine in Central Doña Ana County, New Mexico Territory, 1848-1864"

Session 1D: Women's History Sites: The Other Half of the American Story.
Location: Cimarron.

Chair: Lou Ann Shurbet.

• Marcia de Chadenédes, "The History of Public Law 105-341"
• John Murphy and Dorothy Victor, "HPD and Fostering Women's Roles in New Mexico"
• Lucy Lippard, "New Identities for Native American and Hispanic Women Artists"

Session 1E: Albert Braun, O.F.M.: Last of the Frontier Priests.
Location: Los Padres.

Chair: Richard Melzer.

• Dorothy Cave, "Last of the Frontier Priests: Albert Braun, O.F.M."
• Frank M. Barrios, "The Building of a Memorial to Father Albert Braun"
• Peter Boegel, O.F.M., "St. Joseph's Apache Mission Restoration Project"

10:15 a.m.--11:30 a.m.

Session 2A: Arizona and New Mexico in the Civil War.
Location: Ballroom.

Chair: John P. Wilson.

• Jerry Thompson, "Death in the Morning: Capt. James `Paddy' Graydon and Dr. John Marmaduke Whitlock Feud and Gunbattle at Fort Stanton, November 5, 1862"
• Walter E. Pittman, Jr., "Spies, Scouts and Guerrillas: Confederate Special Operations around Sibley's New Mexico Expedition of 1862"
• Al Bates, "Adventures in Confederate Arizona and Union New Mexico Territories: Jack Swilling and the Civil War

Session 2B: Legal Issues and Civil Rights.
Location: San Rafael A.

Chair: Gordon Dudley.

• Margaret Jacobs, "A Battle for the Children: American Indian Child Removal in Arizona in the Era of Assimilation"
• Christine Marín, "Moore and Bryant vs. the Globe-Miami, Arizona, School Boards, 1951-1952: The Case of Two African American Teachers"
• Sean Duffy, "The Origins of Arizona's Drug Wars: The Law, Informants, and Addicts during the Era of Prohibition"

Session 2C: Ruby, Arizona: From Four-Star Mining Camp to Ghost Town.
Location: San Rafael B.

Chair: Mary Noon Kasulaitis.

• Bob Ring, "Montana Camp: Gold and Silver Mining at the Montana Mine in the Arizona Territory Borderland"
• Al Ring, "Ruby: The Montana Mine Becomes the Largest Producer of Lead and Zinc in the State of Arizona"
• Tallia Pfrimmer Cahoon, "Ruby: From Its Heyday in the 1930s to Ghost Town"

Session 2D: Southwestern Women.
Location: Cimarron.

Chair: Kathleen Noon.

• Janolyn Lo Vecchio, "The Right to Serve on Juries: Arizona Women's Jury Bill, 1933-1945"
• Sarah L. Nucci, "Kate Thomson Cory: An Independent Victorian Woman in Arizona"
• Earl Zarbin, "Jacque Mercer of Arizona: Her Year As Miss America (Affairs of the Heart)"

Session 2E: Bountiful Harvests: Farming and Society in the Salt River Valley over 2,000 Years.
Location: Los Padres.

Chair: John O. Baxter.

• Jerry B. Howard, "Prehistoric Irrigation and the Agricultural Transformation of the Salt River Valley"
• Chad R. Willis, "Early Mesa, Arizona: 'Outpost in Babylon'"
• Fred Andersen, "Oasis or Metropolis: Competing Visions of the Salt River Valley"

Noon--1:00 p.m. - Arizona Historical Society Al Merito Luncheon.
Location: Ballroom. Open to all conference attendees.

1:30 p.m.--2:45 p.m.

Session 3A: Native Americans.
Location: Ballroom.

Chair: Marsha Weisiger.

• Peter Iverson, "The Navajos and `An Unknown Future': Dine Responses to the Imposition of Education and Authority in the Early 1900s"
• Jeffrey P. Shepherd, "We Are From the River, Yet We Cannot Go There: A Century of Hualapai Struggles for the Colorado River"
• Michael J. Lawson, "Trading with Indians for Specimens: The Smithsonian Institution's 1882 Expedition to the Pueblos"

Session 3B: History of the White Sands Proving Ground.
Location: San Rafael A.

Chair: Gus Seligman.

• Jim Eckles, "Apaches, Aliens, and Atomic Bombs"
• George Helfrich, "The Navy in the New Mexico Desert"
• Ray Melton, "A History of NASA at WSMR"

Session 3C: Railroads.
Location: San Rafael B.

Chair: Spencer Wilson.

• Frederick S. Friedman, "A Transition in Technology: Railroads and the Santa Fe Trail"
• Dave Devine, "Hear That Train A-Coming: The Time Just Prior to the Arrival of the Railroad in Tucson, Arizona"
• Blaine P. Lamb, "`To Bind the Desert Fast': Charting the Course of the Iron Road through the Southwest"

Session 3D: New Mexico Catholicism.
Location: Los Padres.

Chair: José Antonio Esquibel.

• Paul Kraemer, "Benevides Revisited: Franciscan Lobbyist or Medieval Visionary"
• Pauline Chávez Bent, "The Faith, Courage, and Spirit of New Mexico's Hispanic Pioneering Women: A Profile of Rural Catholicism"
• Candice Welhausen, "Roadside Crosses in New Mexico"

Session 3E: Reflections on the Bartlett-Condé Compromise and the Southern Boundary of New Mexico.
Location: Cimarron.

Chair: Andrew Wallace.

• Harry Hewitt, "`At the Throat of Paso del Norte': Pedro Garcia Condé, John Russell Bartlett, and the New Mexico Boundary Controversy, 1850"
• David Miller, "Running the Gauntlet in New Mexico: A. W. Whipple on the Bartlett- Condé Line"

3:00 p.m.--4:15 p.m.

Session 4A: Law and Outlawry.
Location: Ballroom.

Chair: Larry D. Ball.

• Brian Sandwich, "Scientific Strangulation: The Hangman's Noose in Arizona"
• Robert F. Palmquist, "`We Don't Want You In This Country': Billy Tilghman in New Mexico and Arizona, 1880-1882"
• E. Donald Kaye, "General N. A. M. Dudley: New Mexico, Arizona and Elsewhere-- Rogue, Hero or Both?"

Session 4B: The Camino Reál de Tierra Adentro.
Location: San Rafael A.

Chair: John Nieto-Phillips.

• Joseph P. Sánchez, "A Historical Overview"
• Ed Natay, "The Camino Reál, An Indian Perspective"
• Harry Myers and Terry Humphrey, "Current Status of the National Historic Trail"
• Steve Fosberg, "Working with Mexico on the Camino Reál"

Session 4C: Plotting the Southwestern Landscape.
Location: Sam Rafael B.

Chair: Beverly Pirtle.

• Richard D. Quartaroli, "GPS in 1869: The Geographical Powell Survey"
• Malcolm Comeaux, "The How and Why of Southwestern Boundaries"
• George E. Hartz III, "Arizona's Borders: History, Geography, and Happenstance"

Session 4D: "Nature's Children": An Examination of the Reciprocal Relationship between Human Beings and Their Environment.
Location: Los Padres.

Chair: Sam Truett

• Danielle A. Kilpatric, "What Price Progress?: An Examination of the Environmental Costs to the Building of the Coolidge Dam"
• Brenna Lissoway, "Mexican Trails, American Spaces: Arizona's Shifting Immigration Corridors, 1924-2000"
• Brian S. Collier, "Handy Ditch and Irrigation Company, 1877-1999: Cooperation, Community, and Cultural Ecology"

Session 4E: Gadsden Purchase Country.
Location: Cimarron.

Chair: George Torok.

• Alfredo Gonzáles, Jr. and Diana Hadley, "The Economics and Politics of Borderlands Ranching: The Hatchett and Godfrey Ranches, Hidalgo County, New Mexico"
• Jim Turner, "How Arizona Became a Territory: The Tucson-Mesilla Connection"
• Tom Dudley, "The Decline of Tombstone: What Really Happened"
• Jerry Juliani, "Cavalry Forts to Sanatoria: A New Mexico-Arizona Legacy"

5:00 p.m. Book Auction.
Location: Farm and Ranch Museum. Cash Bar.

7:00 p.m. BBQ Brisket Dinner
Location: Farm and Ranch Museum.

SATURDAY, April 13

7:00 a.m.--8:15 a.m. HSNM Breakfast/Annual Membership Meeting.
Location: Ballroom.

8:00 a.m.--noon. Registration.
Location: Lobby.

Book Displays. Location: Tularosa Room.

8:30 a.m.--9:45 a.m.

Session 5A: New Mexico's POW Camps.
Location: Ballroom.

Chair: Jane O'Cain.

• Molly Pressler, "Camp Lordsburg"
• Wolfgang Schlauch, "Las Cruces Camps I & II"
• Elvis Fleming, "Camp Roswell"

Session 5B: Business and Commerce.
Location: San Rafael A.

Chair: Scott Zeman.

• Bill Lockhart and Michael Miller, "How Coke Won the (South)West: The History of the Southwestern Coca-Cola Bottling Co."
• Scott Fritz, "General Stores in the Modern Age: The Impact of the Early Twentieth Century on the Anglo and Hispano Mercantile Communities of New Mexico and Arizona, 1865-1929"
• Karen Enloe, "`Industry Invades the Reservation': Arizona and New Mexico's Tribal Manufacturing Initiatives in the 1960s and 1970s"

Session 5C: New Mexico's Colonial Military.
Location: San Rafael B.

Chair: John Grassham.

• Virginia Sánchez and Henrietta Martinez Christmas, "The New Mexico Colonial Military, 1700-1822"
• Robert J. Tórrez, "The Santa Fé Mexican Presidio, 1821-1846"

Session 5D: Little Colorado Country.
Location: Los Padres.

Chair: Marshall Trimble.

• A. J. Pfister, "`Run by a Ring': The Reform Election of 1886 and Apache County Politics"
• Jo Baeza, "Little Colorado River Sketches"
• Stan Brown, "From Cebolleta to St. Johns: Early Hispanic Settlement of the Little Colorado River"

10:15 a.m.--11:30 a.m.

Session 6A: Regional POW Experiences.
Location: Ballroom.

Chair: Tomas Jaehn.

• Clara Vick, "The Italians at Camp Hereford"
• Bob Hart and Cameron Saffell, "Employing POWs in New Mexico"
• Steve Hoza, "Arizona POW Camps"

Session 6B: Scenery, Souvenirs and Sightseeing: Selling Southwestern "Sizzle."
Location: San Rafael A.

Chair: Robert A. Trennert.

• Kathleen L. Howard, "Cultural Suspense: The Metamorphoses of Antonio Apache"
• James E. Babbitt, "The Impassable Dream: John Weatherford's San Francisco Mountain Boulevard"
• Jeremy Rowe, "Dudley P. Flanders 'Trip Through Arizona': A California Photographer's View of the West"

Session 6C: The Yavapai Heritage Roundup: A Complete Inventory of Yavapai County's Historic Cache.
Location: Cimarron.

Panelists: Kathryn Reisdorfer, Yavapai College; Michael Wurtz, Sharlot Hall Museum; Cheryl Richardson, Yavapai County Library District; Mick Woodcock, Sharlot Hall Museum.

Session 6D: Statehood Centennial Celebrations: The Resources of the New Mexico State Library, Archives and Records Center.
Location: Los Padres.

Moderator: Jo Anne Jager, manager NMSL Southwest Collections

Panelists: Sandra Jaramillo, director SRCA Archives and Historical Services; Erica L. Garcia, grants administrator NMHRAB.

Noon--1:00 p.m. HSNM Luncheon. Location: Ballroom. Open to all conference attendees.

1:30 p.m.-- 5:00 p.m. Field Trips. See registration form. Persons not wishing to register for field trips may attend one of the following sessions.

1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Session 7A: Territorial Architecture and Historic Preservation.
Location: San Rafael A.

Chair: Reba Grandrud.

• Agnesa Reeve, "No Fixed Abode: Territorial Temporary Quarters"
• Mary Jean Cook, "Quentin Monier: French Builder of Santa Fé and Tucson"
• Daria Labinski, "Frank Applegate, Historic Preservationist"
• Jake Ivey, "Martin Koslowski and the Dismantling of the Church at Pecos Mission"

Session 7B: Ghost Towns and Trails.
Location: San Rafael B.

Chair: Carleen Lazzell.

• Erik Berg, "Ghost Towns of the Second World War: The Abandoned Army Air Fields of Arizona and New Mexico"
• Linda G. Harris, "Ghost Town Resurrection"
• Eldon Bowman, "Practical Techniques for Locating and Identifying Old Roads and Trails"
• Harold E. Herbert, "Tracing the Ft. Grant-Camp Thomas Road as It Existed During the 1880s"

6:00 p.m. No-host cocktails.
Location: Ballroom.

7:00 p.m. HSNM/AHC Awards Banquet.

SUNDAY, April 13

Field Trips:

• Mesilla Valley & Fort Selden
• El Paso Missions and Museums

Convention attendees who wish to stay over on Sunday are invited to board buses for tours of the Mesilla Valley & Fort Selden, or El Paso Missions, Museums, etc. See registration form for details.

ACCOMMODATIONS:

Las Cruces Hilton, 705 S. Telshor Blvd., Las Cruces, NM 88011. $71.00 + tax, single or double. Make reservations by April 1. (505) 522-4300, or tear off form included in program. Please identify yourself as attending the New Mexico-Arizona History Convention.

For information (Arizona) call Nancy Stonehouse or Bruce Dinges at (520) 628-5774. Or, visit the AHC website: www.arizonahistory.org

For information (New Mexico) call John P. Bloom at (505) 382-0722. Or, visit the HSNM website: www.hsnm.org.