Roberta Key Haldane has created a massive yet lively work with 250 unique family and area photos. Her portrayal of the life and death of an 1879 boomtown makes you cry, laugh and wish that you had been among the intriguing cascade of outlaws
and rogues, hard rock and scrappy miners, ranchers, bankers, Frenchmen who ran the stage line, rich guys and the poverty-stricken workers. Some individuals from the Lincoln County War, like Susan McSween Barber, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, are included. The 40 or so personalized accounts shared in Gold-Mining Boomtown reveal a fascinating and unexpected melting pot in early-day Lincoln County history.
—Lynda Sánchez, author of Fort Stanton: An Illustrated History
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Lynda A. Sánchez earned the 2007 Preservation Award recognizing her work in saving New Mexico’s Fort Stanton, a story she shares in her book Legacy of Honor, Tradition of Healing: Fort Stanton. She and her family live on a small ranch along the Bonito River in southern New Mexico. Her time in the Peace Corps in South America, her archaeological field work at Mesa Verde and in Mexico and Belize all guided her to the colorful mosaic of folk heroes, legends and the incredible history of the American Southwest. Sánchez is also an advocate for the preservation of our veterans’ legacy.