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New Mexico Historical Review Volume 74 Number 1 Article 1 1-1-1999 Full Issue New Mexico Historical Review Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/nmhr Recommended Citation New Mexico Historical Review. "Full Issue." New Mexico Historical Review 74, 1 (1999). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/nmhr/vol74/iss1/1 This Full Issue is brought to you for free and open access by UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in New Mexico Historical Review by an authorized editor of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. I' . NEW MEXICO HISTORICAL REVIEW STAFF EDITOR: Elizabeth Jameson MANAGING EDITOR: Evelyn A. Schlatter ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Javier F. Marion ASSISTANT EDITOR: Jennifer K. Miller ASSISTANT EDITOR: Carlos M. Solomon ASSISTANT EDITOR: Kim Suina EDITORIAL ASSISTANT: Shirley A. Linder EDITORIAL ASSISTANT: Amanda Taylor-Montoya EDITORIAL ASSISTANT: Ramona L. Caplan ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT: Anthony J. Goodrich EDITORIAL BOARD John Porter Bloom John Grassham John L. Kessell William Broughten Jerry Gurule Richard Lowitt Thomas E. Chavez Albert L. Hurtado Darlis Miller Meredith Dodge Sandra Jaramillo Tey Diana Rebolledo Frank de la Teja Dee Johnson Joe Sando William H. Goetzmann Oakah L. Jones, Jr. Robert J. Torrez The New Mexico Historical Review, USPS 381-340, is owned and published quar terly by the University ofNew Mexico. Copyright 1998 by the Regents of the Univer sity of New Mexico. Printed and bound in the USA at Starline Printing, Albuquerque, New Mexico. ISSN: 02057133000. SUBSCRIPTIONS: $26 per year for individuals; $36 for institutions; $50 for spon sors; $100 for patrons; $250 for benefactors; $16 for students. Individual copies are $7. Subscriptions and other business communications should be addressed to the Sub scription Manager, New Mexico Historical Review, 1013 Mesa Vista Hall, University ofNew Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131-1 186. Telephone (505) 277-5839. 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VOLUME 74 JANUARY 1999 NUMBER 1 CONTENTS Editor's Introduction From Agriculturalists to Entrepreneurs: Economic Success and Mobility Among Albuquerque's Italian Immigrants, 1900-1930 NICHOLAS P. CIOTOLA 3 "Recollections of the Daughter of Pioneers": The Memoirs ofClara Huning Fergusson 29 ANN M. MASSMANN, EDITOR Dennis Chavez and the National Agenda: 1933-1946 ROY LUJAN 55 DOCUMENTS DEPARTMENT 75 BOOK REVIEWS 79 BOOK NOTES 99 NEWS NOTES 101 INDEX (VOL. 73) 105 Book Reviews Wrobel, David M. and Michael C. Steiner, eds., Many Wests: Place, Culture, and Regional Identity, by Stephen Aron 79 Ove, Reverend Robert S. and H. Henrietta Stockel, Geronimo s Kids: A Teacher s Lessons on the Apache Reservation, by Stefanie Beninato 80 Howard, David A., Conquistador in Chains: Cabeza de Vaca and the Indians of the Americas, by Judy Bieber 81 Reily-Branum, Barbara Jeanne and Roberta Haldane, Corralled in Old Lincoln County, New Mexico: The Lin Branum Family ofCoyote Canyon and the I Bar X, by Kathleen P. Chamberlain 82 Morris, John Miller, El Llano Estacado: Exploration and Imagination on the High Plains ofTexas and New Mexico, 1536-1860, by Richard Flint 83 Hughes, John Taylor, Doniphan s Expedition, by Kurt Hackemer 84 Rodriguez 0., Jaime E. and Kathryn Vincent, eds., Common Border, Uncom mon Paths: Race, Culture, and National Identity in U.S.-Mexican Relations, by Fred R. Harris 84 Gunter, Pete A. Y. and Max Oelschlaeger, Texas Land Ethics, by John Herron 85 Westwood, Richard E., Woman ofthe River: Georgie White Clark, White- Water Pioneer, by Alfred E. Holland, Jr. 86 Bigrigg, Carin, et. aI., eds., La Puerta: A Doorway into the Academy, by Joel M. Jones 87 Fagan, Brian M., Clash ofCultures, by John E. Kicza 88 Ruiz, Vicki L., From Out ofthe Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America, by Anna Macias 89 Velez-Ibanez, Carlos G., Border Visions: Mexican Cultures of the Southwest United States, by Susan P. Mains 90 Launius, Roger D., Alexander William Doniphan: Portrait ofa Missouri Mod erate, by Darlis A. Miller 91 Madsen, Carol Cornwall, ed., Battle for the Ballot: Essays on Woman Suffrage in Utah, 1870-1896, by Jane Reilly 92 Lynch, John, Massacre in the Pampas, 1872: Britain and Argentina in the Age ofMigration, by David Rock 93 NEW MEXICO HISTORICAL REVIEW JANUARY 1999 Brode, Bernice, Tales ofLos Alamos: Life on the Mesa, 1943-1945, by Ferenc M. Szasz 94 Harlan, Louis R., All at Sea: Coming ofAge in World War lJ, by Ferenc M. Szasz 94 Wyaco, Virgil, and J. A. Jones, ed., A Zuni Life: A Pueblo Indian in Two Worlds, by Robert M. Trennert 95 Ferrer, Elizabeth, The True Poetry: The Art of Maria Izquierdo, by Gina McDaniel Tarver 96 Editor's Introduction With this volume of the New Mexico Historical Review we inaugurate a new Documents Department. In addition to articles, book reviews, and book notes, we will print historical documents so that readers can experience first hand the original materials that historians use in our research. We welcome your comments and suggestions on this new feature. Our document for this issue speaks to the theme of ethnic identity that links three otherwise different articles. Nicholas P. Ciotola conducted oral his tory interviews to explore the experiences ofItalians who immigrated to Albu querque from 1900-1930. Roy Lujan used a more traditional source, the pa pers of a prominent politician, to narrate the career of United States Senator Dennis Chavez from 1933-1946. The Chavez Papers are housed at the Univer sity ofNew Mexico's Center for Southwest Research. Ann M. Massman, South west Studies Librarian and Assistant Professor at the Center, mined another of its archival collections, the Huning-Fergusson Papers, to reproduce the mem oir of Clara Huning Fergusson. Her memoir, which helps introduce the Docu ments Department, is the retrospectively recorded story ofa woman who grew up in a prominent Albuquerque German immigrant family; she later married Harvey Butler Fergusson, the state's first Congressional Representative. In a sense, Clara Huning Fergusson bridges the perspectives of the other two ar ticles through her intimate recollections of an Albuquerque immigrant com munity and of her personal relationships with many prominent and powerful New Mexicans. The three articles present a range of sources and perspectives, varying from Clara Huning Fergusson's personal and private memories of the Euro American elite, to the collective portrait ofItalian settlement Nicholas Ciotola gleaned from oral history interviews, to the public political achievements of Senator Chavez. These essays take readers from the intimate details of daily life to national arenas ofpublic policy. They also provide a reminder ofthe rich diversity of New Mexico's heritage. From Italian and German immigrants to one of the most prominent Hispanic politicians of the twentieth century, we explore the distinct histories and ethnic identities of Europeans who forged two strands of our "tricultural" history. NEW MEXICO HISTORICAL REVIEW JANUARY 1999 Our new Documents Department further illustrates the connection of sources with diverse histories. We reproduce two newspaper stories from the 1907 Albuquerque Morning Journal, which report a robbery at the New York Saloon. The proprietor, Pete Zito, immigrated to Albuquerque in the early 1900s, and was part ofthe Italian immigrant community chronicled in our lead article. This public print document presents a different window into Italian business experience than the more personal stories Nicholas Ciotola collected. We thank Mo Palmer ofthe Albuquerque Museum who provided the biographical sketches ofPete and Angela Barbieri Zito that establish context for the newspaper docu ments. On a more mundane note, we regretfully announce that with this issue, the price ofsubscriptions to the Review will increase to $28 a year for individu als, and $48 for institutions. The Review is supported by your subscriptions and by legislative funding. While we must pass on part of increased publishing costs to our readers, we also rely on state appropriations to help fund our edu cational mission and our student staff. If you appreciate the journal, please recognize the efforts and the talent ofthe UNM students who produce it; please express your appreciation and support to your legislators. One of the unavoidable rhythms of a teaching journal is the periodic departures of our student staff as they achieve professional success. With this issue we bid farewell to both Assistant Editor Shirley Linder, who is in the process of finishing her Master's degree in the history ofthe American West, and Assistant Editor Carlos Solomon. Carlos is a doctoral student in Latin Ameri can history, with a minor field in the