New Mexico Historic photos, documents, and people

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Typical farm in the Mills area, New Mexico. These people are to be resettled, their land to revert to cattle range

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Dust storm. It was conditions of this sort which forced many farmers to abandon the area. Spring 1935. New Mexico

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Group of homesteaders in front of the bean house which was used for exhibit hall at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair

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Mr. Leatherman, homesteader, shooting hawks which have been carrying away his chickens, Pie Town, New Mexico

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Resettled child of Bosque Farms, New Mexico. She herds cows for neighboring families for five cents per day

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West bound Santa Fe R.R. freight train waiting in a siding to meet an east bound train, Ricardo, New Mexico

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Tying a ribbon on a calf's tail was one of the feature attractions at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair rodeo

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Stand of vega grass eaten off close. In good seasons hay can be cut from areas like this. New Mexico

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Jack Whinery, homesteader, with his wife and the youngest of his five children, Pie Town, New Mexico