Carlotta Thompkins Thurmond “Lottie Deno”

Carlotta Thompkins Thurmond “Lottie Deno”

Carlotta Thompkins “Lottie Deno” Thurmond lived a life of legend, and in so doing, likely became the inspiration for the Miss Kitty character in the popular TV series Gunsmoke. Born in Warsaw, Kentucky, on April 21, 1844, her early life, particularly her...
Captive Women and Children of Taos County

Captive Women and Children of Taos County

From the seventeenth century into the nineteenth century, raiding and trading human beings, especially women and children, occurred with regularity in New Mexico. Native Americans took and traded human captives among themselves as well as in the communities in...
Anita Scott Coleman

Anita Scott Coleman

Novelist Anita Scott Coleman was an important western voice in the Harlem Renaissance, an early-twentieth-century movement of flourishing social, artistic, and political innovation among African Americans. The movement, known at the time as the “New Negro...
Ana de Sandoval y Manzanares

Ana de Sandoval y Manzanares

For all of New Mexico’s history under Spanish and Mexican administrations, in some respects, women had more legal rights then their English, North American counterparts. Ana de Sandoval y Manzanares is a pointed example. After surviving the 1680 Pueblo Revolt, she...

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