Paul's Articles

Piro Indians and Native American history

Teipana Pueblo (the first Socorro)

Part 1 (History of Teipana - the first Socorro)

Part 2 (Excavation of the Teipana pueblo)

Apache Warriors

Part 1 (Cochise, Nana, Victorio, Mangas Coloradas)

Part 2 (Final surrender, Florida/Ft. Sill, Apache today)

El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro

History of the famous Spanish trail

El Camino Real

Part 1 Part 2

What's in a Name? (Geneology of New Mexico names)

Part 1 Part 2

Legend of the Blue Nun

Spanish Colonial history (1600-1800s)

See also El Camino Real trail history

Mission churches

Part 1 Part 2

Legend of La Llorona

La Pastorela ( La Posadas y Pastorelas

NM Foods (where did New Mexico's food come from?)

Territorial History (1846–1912 statehood)

Civil War in New Mexico

Part 1 Part 2

The Texan Retreat

The Armendaris Land Grant and Ranch
Cremony's Ride

Territorial Saloons (by Robert Eveleth & Paul Harden)

Part 1 (Early Socorro saloons through Prohibition)

Part 2 (History of the Biavachi/Capital Bar)

The Crown Mill

Part 1 (History of the mill and Greenwald family)

Part 2 (Photos & drawings of inside the mill)

The Mexican Revolution

Emigrant Trails

Part 1 (Oregon-California & Mormon trails)

Part 2 (Mormon Battalion; Brewsterites in Socorro)

Outlaws, Lawmen, Crimes, Mysteries
Murder at Mogollon

Belen Train Robbery/Bronco Bill

Death of an Editor

Cold Cases (unsolved crimes around Socorro County)

Part 1 Part 2

New Mexico Rangers

Haunted Socorro

Part 1 (Valverde, Court House, Post Office, etc.)

Part 2 (Highway ghosts, Stallion Site, Carthage, etc.)

Buried and Lost Treasure Stories

Lost Adams Diggings

Part 1 Part 2

Buried Treasure (stories around Socorro County)

Socorro County Towns

Lemitar
Polvadera

Fraley (Fraley, Carthage & Tokay mining towns)

(by Robert Eveleth)

San Marcial floods (destruction in 1929 & 1937)

Ghost Towns of Socorro County

Part 1 (east side of the river)

Part 2 (west side of the river)

Historic Characters

Cremony's Ride

Railroad History

Abo Pass

Western Union and the Railroad Telegraphers

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Early Statehood History (1912–1950s)

History of "M" mountain (by Robert Eveleth)

Ocean-to-Ocean highway (US-60)

Recent History (WWII–present)

B17 (1942 crash on North Baldy Peak)

The Trinity Test (and witnesses in Socorro)

Time capsule (buried 1965 in Socorro's plaza)

The Socorro UFO (The Lonnie Zamora story)

Loma Theater - (History of Gem and Loma Theaters)

Titanic (History of the disaster for 100th anniversary

and the Socorro connection)