Confederate troops invaded New Mexico from Texas, hoping to conquer that territory and then launch a campaign to win the entire West. Drawing on material from her book “The Three-Cornered War ...

In the thirty years leading up to the Civil War, tensions in the country mounted ... As the country expanded westward to Kansas and Nebraska, Texas, New Mexico and California, pushing out Native ...

Two of the largest states in the Union, California and Texas, are depicted in Civil War as the Western ... Nevada, New ...

The measles outbreak in the South Plains region of Texas has been linked to confirmed cases in New Mexico and Oklahoma. The outbreak in West Texas is centered in Gaines County, which neighbors Lea ...

Worth, during the Mexican-American War.1855 ... had been to annex the Republic of Texas in 1845. Polk wanted to lay claim to California, New Mexico, and land near the disputed southern border ...

Local historian James Lutzweiler will present this month’s First Thursday History Program at the Jamestown Public Library at 6:30 p.m. Thursday. Lutzweiler will discuss two seemingly unrelated topics: ...