An Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway train circa 1895. Henry Allen Tice, who worked with a crew that surveyed New Mexico for the railway in 1880, left one of the very few memoirs by a railroad ...

The history of ballooning in New Mexico should perhaps begin with news reports of a strange apparition that appeared in the sky southeast of Santa Fe during late March of 1880.

THIRTY-FIVE YEARS IN NEW-MEXICO. Share full article. May 5, 1880. ... See the article in its original context from May 5, 1880, Page 2 Buy Reprints. View on timesmachine.

SEVEN RIVERS, New-Mexico, April 22.-- The Indians on the Mescalero Indian Reservation, or the Fort Stanton Reservation, as it is sometimes called, have been behaving very badly all this last Winter.