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Holm O. Bursum Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-92-BC
Scope and Content
The materials in the collection document Holm O. Bursum's personal life as well as his business and political careers. Correspondence, documents, and news clippings chronicle Bursum's ranching activities, his tenure as warden at the New Mexico State Penitentiary, various election campaigns, Republican Party involvements, and legislative activities. It includes documents relating to the controversial Indian Lands Bill, commonly known as the Bursum Bill. Albert B. Fall, Bronson Cutting and Elfego...
Dates:
1873-1936
Oral History Interviews of the Abo Canyon Oral History Project for the BNSF Railroad
Collection
Identifier: MSS-952-BC
Abstract
Parametrix conducted the cultural resource survey and mitigation of adverse effects for the BNSF's Second Track Project, near Belen, NM as a major component of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) Section 106 compliance process. Shawn Kelley, a cultural anthropologist and ethnographer interviewed scores of individuals, recording their oral histories related to the railroad, Abo Canyon, and the surrounding area.
Dates:
2007-2009; Majority of material found within 2008
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- Belen (N.M.) -- History 1
- Electioneering -- New Mexico 1
- Legislation -- New Mexico 1
- Legislation -- United States 1
- New Mexico -- History -- 1848- 1
- New Mexico -- Politics and government 1
- New Mexico -- Politics and government -- 1848-1950 1
- New Mexico's Digital Collections 1
- Oral histories 1
- Political campaigns -- New Mexico 1
- Politicians -- New Mexico 1
- Prison wardens -- New Mexico 1
- Pueblo Indians -- Land tenure 1
- Pueblo Indians -- New Mexico 1
- Railroads -- New Mexico -- History 1
- Ranch life -- New Mexico 1
- Ranch life -- New Mexico -- Socorro County 1
- Sheep industry -- History 1
- Sound recordings 1
- Torrance County (N.M.) -- History 1
- United States -- History -- 1919-1933 1
- Valencia County (N.M.) -- History 1 ∧ less
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- Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company 1
- Baca, Elfego, 1864-1945 1
- Cutting, Bronson M., 1888-1935 1
- Fall, Albert B. (Albert Bacon), 1861-1944 1
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