Apr 14 Chautauqua in Albuquerque

Amazing Women of the Wild West: Territorial New Mexico

Amazing Women of the Wild West: Territorial New Mexico

Sat, Apr 14, 2018, 10:30am - 11:30am
Special Collections Library, Central Avenue Northeast, Albuquerque, NM, United States
One of the most dramatic eras of New Mexico’s rich history is the Territorial Period when the United States first raised the American flag on August 18, 1846 over the plaza of Santa Fe for the first time. VanAnn Moore examines territorial women through living history portrayals of Doña Tules (Gertrudes Barcelo), Susan Shelby Magoffin, and Lydia Spencer Lane. These women represented what it took to survive and thrive during very colorful and extremely challenging times in New Mexico’s Territorial Era. It brings history into an understandable and personal reality. Doña Tules opened Santa Fe and New Mexico to America; through Susan Magoffin’s detailed journal we understand the beginning of New Mexico as a Territory; and through Lydia Spencer Lane we experience frontier military life and the beginning of the American Civil War out West.