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>Monday March 05, 2001
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MEXICO
>http://www.oklahoman.com/cgi-bin/show_article?ID=647568&pic=none&TP=getartic
>le Dr. Charles Rogers, a Brownsville physician, has been searching the
>Mexican countryside along the Texas border for two years. He now believes
>Sequoyah's remains may be under a rock-covered grave inside a cave near the
>"lost village" of Sara Rosa. Rogers said a stone with Sequoyah's name
>written in Cherokee was removed from the cave years ago by a Cherokee
>family worried vandals would find the site. The only way to prove for sure
>whether Sequoyah is buried there would be to dig up the area to search for
>personal effects, including a medal given to Sequoyah by the Cherokee
>tribal council in 1824, Rogers said. He believes Mexican authorities and
>Sequoyah's descendants likely wouldn't want the site disturbed. Sequoyah
>was best known for creating the Cherokee alphabet.
>
>TEXAS
>
>http://www.hearstnp.com/san_antonio/bea/news/stories/san/storypage.cfm?xla=s
>aen&xlb=180&xlc=197969&xld=180 Like a coin, the story of the Battle of the
>Alamo has a flip side. Mexican forces were ordered to put down a rebellion
>in the Mexican state of Texas in 1836.
>
>http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/302531_paintings_04te.html Four
>small paintings and a statue of the Virgin Mary missing since last summer
>from two San Antonio missions have been found, police said.
>
>NEW MEXICO
>
>http://www.lcsun-news.com/ James Kirker lived from 1793 until 1852. When
>war broke out between Mexico and the US, Kirker received a full commission
>as a colonel in the Mexican army. His ultimate decision was to join the
>American side in the war. Kirker made contact with Colonel Doniphan's unit
>near Mesilla on Christmas, 1845, and proved invaluable as a scout, advisor
>and fighter. There is no "K" in the Spanish alphabet, and in Mexico James
>Kirker was known as Don Santiago Querque.
>
>http://www.abqjournal.com:80/news/267389news03-05-01.htm The sale of La
>Villa Rivera would force the relocation of millions of historic and
>prehistoric finds stored in the building's crude basement. Despite legal
>protections and legislative efforts, finding 10,000 square feet of climate
>controlled storage is proving difficult for the Museum of New Mexico.
>
>http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/05/national/05TAFO.html?printpage=yes
>Margaret Tafoya was the matriarch of Santa Clara Pueblo potters, who are
>more numerous and produce more pottery than those of any other pueblo.
>
>NEW JOB OPPORTUNITIES (NM)
>
><http://www.swanet.org/zarchives/jobs/jobs2001/sac010305.pdf>
>All opportunities posted at <http://www.swanet.org/jobs.html>
>
>COLORADO
>
>http://www.trib.com/HOMENEWS/STATE/GeorgetownTrain.html Water shortages are
>threatening the operation of the century-old Georgetown narrow-gauge steam
>train this summer. "We haven't found any water yet, but we're looking,"
>said Lindsey Ashby, who operates the train for the owner, the Georgetown
>Historical Society.
>
>http://www.cortezjournal.com/1news1144.htm A grant program supporting
>"sustainable tourism" in Montezuma County is helping to fund county
>projects, including a cultural-site stewardship program. The project
>initially centered on a survey of heritage tourism and recreation connected
>with communities and public lands in the Four Corners region. Last summer,
>the survey data was compiled into summaries describing various aspects of
>individual communities and public-lands offices. The surveys helped to
>decide which projects would be given funding.
>
>UTAH/ARIZONA
>
>http://www.denverpost.com/news/news0304e.htm The Church of Jesus Christ of
>Latter-day Saints disavowed the practice in the 1890s after what church
>leaders call a divine revelation, but what others say was a political
>compromise so that Utah could become a state. Rebellious zealots moved in
>the 1920s to the parched landscape south of Zion National Park. Known as
>Short Creek until the 1960s, Colorado City and Hildale, Utah, its neighbor
>across the state line, now make up the nation's largest polygamous
>community. Most of the towns' estimated 8,000 residents live in polygamous
>families. Families have intermarried over the decades so that husbands and
>wives commonly are stepsiblings and cousins. Visitors remark on the number
>of children who suffer from physical or mental disabilities.
>
>ARIZONA
>
>http://www.yumasun.com/columns/whenarizonawasyoung.shtml With a mining boom
>just starting in Nevada, food was scarce. Hooker took advantage of it by
>purchasing 500 turkeys in California for $1.50 apiece. How he trail-herded
>turkeys over the mountains to Carson City, Nevada is a mystery, but he
>succeeded selling the birds for $5 each. Using his stake, Hooker began
>buying cattle and transporting them to Arizona where he sold beef to Army
>posts. Hooker tried moving his herd to friendly Papago territory in 1869
>where he thought they would be safe. Although he lost fewer cattle to
>thieves, 400 of his herd were eaten by the tribe. Their attitude was,
>"Whatever belonged to their friend belonged to them." "Billy the Kid"
>(William Bonney) worked for a time in the late 1870s on the Hooker ranch
>before he went on to his notorious career in New Mexico. The Sierra
>Bonita's location near Tombstone also caused Hooker to become involved with
>Wyatt Earp and his faction.
>
>NEVADA
>
>http://www.tahoe.com/appeal/stories.3.5.01/CARSON/daytodebat05Mar2614.html
>Residents of Dayton are intent on proving their community is Nevada's first
>settlement. A handwritten account by pioneer Lucena Parsons of life in Gold
>Canyon (Dayton) documents bustling human activity in 1851 at least two
>weeks earlier than Mormon Station's foundation was erected. Wishing to
>portray the issue in a civil and scholarly fashion, the Friends of the
>Dayton Valley Library are sponsoring a debate. As a prelude to Dayton's
>150th birthday celebration, organizers have invited four of Nevada's most
>recognized historians to participate in a "scholarly panel discussion" on
>which community should be considered the state's first settlement.
>Scheduled for May 18 during Nevada State Archaeological Awareness and
>Historic Preservation week, the panel will consist of UNR history professor
>emeritus Jim Hulse, primary author of Nevada history books; Nevada State
>Archivist Guy Rocha; Martin Griffith, Nevada historian, researcher and
>journalist for the Associate Press; and Stanley Paher, author of several
>Nevada history books.
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