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E. Meek Diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS -221 -SC
Scope and Content
The collection consists of one diary which covers 8 months of E. Meek's life in Raton, N. M., 1892-1893. The entries include daily observations on the local weather, railroad trains coming into the depot, train destinations, co-workers, train wrecks, strikes and, train orders. Meek records town shootings, thefts, local fights, and the arrival of the Circuit Court. The diary has many entries about boxing, both professional and his own amateur endeavors. He writes of gambling at the Crystal...
Dates:
1892 May 27 - 1983 Jan. 28
F.E. Kavanaugh Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-233-BC
Abstract
This collection is comprised of two leather-bound ledgers of Dr. Finis Ewing Kavanaugh, merchant, sutler and physician attached to military posts at Fort Fauntleroy/Fort Lyon and Cubero, New Mexico.
Dates:
1860-1888
Mary Grossetete Diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS-902-SC
Abstract
The collection centers on Mary Grossete Landon’s diary, providing first-hand insight into the desperation and hardships of frontier and pioneer life in Catron County in the late nineteenth century.
Dates:
1893-1895, 2007; Majority of material found within 1893-1895
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