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• mining article with its links to Pinos Altos websites
Apache chief Mangas Colorado murdered there -- 1863

Handbook of Texas Online

• http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/MM/fmi36.html   Anson Mills (of El Paso fame) laid out the town of Pinos Altos
   
• http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/BB/fbaat.html  Confederate officer John Robert Baylor "In March 1862 he sent a letter ordering the extermination of the hostile Apaches in the area to Capt. Thomas Helm, who was guarding the Pinos Altos mines."

Library Catalogs

• EPCC Online Catalog

• UTEP Library Catalog

  Keyword search in UTEP Library shows they have a master's thesis , microfilm records of the mines, and a manuscript collection of a rough rider/soldier (Frank Brito) who was born in Pinos Altos in 1877. 
   

• El Paso Public Library Catalog

  EPPL has no items in their catalog, but they may have a vertical file (copies of newspaper articles) and you can also look up the town in their newspaper card catalog index.  Call the Border Heritage Center to see if there's a vertical file folder on this town.  915-543-5440
   

• NMSU Library Catalog (especially if you are researching a New Mexico topic)
  

  • The Pinos Altos story / by Dorothy Watson. at Branson Library Special Collections F804.P56 W38 1960 Copy 1 
     
  • also a work from 2007 called Occupied America:  A History of Chicanos that has an essay on the Pinos Altos strike.  at Zuhl library E184.M5 A63 2007 Copy 1
     
  • a video on the old west in NM that has a piece on the Pinos Altos saloon.
     

• Silver City Museum

  This would be an excellent place to call or visit to research Pinos Altos, since the town is only 6 miles from here in the Gila.

Books on Reserve (list of standard books)

Password (Journal of EP Historical Society) and its Archives

• There were no hits on "pinos altos" so I did a general search "mining new mexico"  and found two articles which may mention pinos altos or give other background information on mining in this part of the state.  Kingston is within 50 miles of Pinos Altos. 

  • Kingston, New Mexico Area mining boom, late 19th-early 20th century, : xxxviii, 6-9 passim
  • Mining activities in Territorial New Mexico, : xxxi, 137-145 passim

  Come into the library to check the indexes in the back of the books on reserve and to read the Password articles. 

Google Books

• New Mexico Mines and Minerals ...- Being an Epitome of the Early Mining ...  pp. 47-52
• The Leading Facts of New Mexican History  P. 249+
• Aztlan- The History, Resources, and Attractions of New Mexico p.119

 

EPPL: Border Heritage Center

• >Call and ask the staff before you go down (915-543-5440), if there is an entry in their vertical file.  This is a collection of photocopied articles on a person or topic.
   
• In addition, check the newspaper card catalog to see other articles available. You would then have to search for the article in the microfilms, ask at the reference desk around the corner from the readers for help.

UTEP Library's Special Collections Department

UTEP's Institute of Oral History

Local and National Newspapers

Library of Congress Memory Project

 

 

 

page compiled by Rachel Murphree
Last updated 09/03/2008

Borderlands is published annually by El Paso Community College, P.O. Box 20500, El Paso, TX 79998. 

It is a collection of student written articles on the history and culture of the El Paso, Juárez, Las Cruces border region, comprising the states of Texas, New Mexico, and the Mexican state of Chihuahua.   This site was created with seed money from the Integrating Technical Contexts into Academic Courses (ITAC) Project, and maintained by the Northwest Community Library staff.  Funds for the program were provided by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board under the auspices of the federal Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act of 1998.  

Ruth Vise, Borderlands Director, EPCC
Monica Wong, Project Coordinator, Head Librarian,  Northwest Community Library,  EPCC
Joe Old, Technical Consultant, ITAC Project
Mary Sarber,  Lorely Ambriz, and Library Staff.
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