New Mexico & Politicians of the Past
by Don Bullis
TABLE OF CONTENTS
New Mexico Governors: Some Facts and Figures
Juan Bautista De Anza: A New Mexico Frontiersman
William F. M. Arny: Indian Agent and More
Gov. Sam Axtell and the Santa Fe Ring
Spruce M. Baird: El Chino Tejano
Judge Kirby Benedict: Justice New Mexico Style
Justice of the Peace, Hoodoo Brown
J. Francisco Chaves, A True Son of New Mexico
Governor Fernando De La Concha: Peacekeeper
Governor Henry Connelly and the Texas Invasion
George Curry: Witness to New Mexico History
New Mexico’s Chameleon Politician: Bronson Cutting
“Smooth” Steve Elkins and the Fight for New Mexico Statehood
Albert B. Fall and the Mexican Revolution
What Became of Albert & Henry Fountain
President Grant and the Indians
Joab Houghton: Judge Without Bona Fides
All About Governor Octaviano A. Larrazolo
Carl C. Magee Shoots Judge, Kills Bystander
David Meriwether’s New Mexico Adventure
Juan De Oñate: New Mexico’s Unhappy Founder
Governor Albino Pérez and the Revolt of 1837
Edmund Ross: Forgotten Hero
The Rynerson-Slough Duel
Governor Sheldon and the New Mexico Territorial Penitentiary
Clyde Tingley: A Diamond in the Rough
Nicholas Trist & The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Governor Vigil y Alarid Surrenders to General Kearny
Waldo: The Town and the Man
Lew Wallace & Billy the Kid: The Governor and the Outlaw