Albuquerque Remembered

Writer Erna Fergusson observed in 1947 that Albuquerque, “sitting at the crossroads of the centuries,” had seen every phase of Southwestern life. Now, at a real crossroads in time, the city’s 300th birthday, the state university’s press has chosen a storyteller rather than a professor to compress the long history of the city into a single volume. It is a wise choice. Bryan, a veteran of 42 years on The Albuquerque Tribune, transforms commercial and political history into a live