Book Description

Otros Recuerdos III is the sixth book in the Recuerdos series. It follows Recuerdos, Recuerdos II, Recuerdos III, Otros Recuerdos, and Otros Recuerdos II. All the books in this series are a collection of short vignettes about events that have occurred in Guadalupe county since the late 1800s. This installment of the Recuerdos series includes stories about Guadalupe county communities including Santa Rosa, Puerto de Luna, Cuervo, Vaughn, Newkirk, the Bar Y ranch, Anton Chico, and Pastura. Otros Recuerdos III also includes stories about many person from Guadalupe county's past, including Nels Johnson, who preferred to be called "Dobe Joe," Tom McGrath, Grace B. Melaven, Charles B. Eddy, Uncle John Hicks, Celso Baca, J. V. Gallegos, Will Rogers, and Charles Lindbergh as well as several others. Several of the vignettes are about Vaughn, and its early and often very colorful history. They include stories about Vaughn's two competing railroads. Competition between the two railroads led to two separate and distinct communities, the original Vaughn and the newer East Vaughn. The Vaughn vignettes are illustrated with vintage period photographs. Newspaper articles are also used in many of the vignettes. Most of the articles are from New Mexico newspapers, but some are from articles that were published in newspaper from other states. Those articles show that at a particular point in time the events that were happening in our county were significant enough to attract widespread coverage. Some of the vignettes are about individuals in the county whose lives were of enough significance to have played an important role in the county's passage through time. Those individuals contributed to the growth of the area. Some were government officials while others were businessmen. One was a woman who held a high position in state government.