Research Catalog

Title

Memoirs, 1892-1969 : a New Mexico item / by William A. Keleher.

Author

Keleher, William A. (William Aloysius), 1886-1972.

Publication

Santa Fe, N.M. : Rydal Press, ©1969.

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Details

Description

293 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

William A. Keleher always had an active curiosity and this made him an outstanding newspaperman and an indefatigable researcher of historical events. It led him into many intellectual adventures that resulted in a whole series of books of New Mexicana. In this personal narrative, he gives readers a glimpse behind the scenes of his career not only as a writer but as a lawyer. The pages of this last book are full of rich anecdotes and little-known episodes involving such men as Governor Clyde Tingley, Senator Bronson Cutting, Elfego Baca, and Senator Dennis Chavez. Here is the story of how a bank was saved, how political careers were initiated and blocked, the story of an editor who wrote the editorials on both sides of an important question for the competing newspapers, previously unpublished stories about Eugene Manlove Rhodes, and how Elfego Baca collected an insurance settlement. There is also the account of Franz Huning, whose 'castle' was partly in New Albuquerque, partly in Old Albuquerque, and a story of visiting the Old Town jail to see an Albuquerque editor serving a term for contempt. Like his other books, Memoirs is essential for anyone interested in the history and culture of the American Southwest.

Subject

• Keleher, William A. 1886-1972
• Keleher, William A. 1886-1972
• Since 1848
• Historians > New Mexico > Albuquerque > Biography
• Lawyers > New Mexico > Albuquerque > Biography
• Historians
• Lawyers
• Albuquerque (N.M.) > Biography
• New Mexico > History > 1848-
• New Mexico
• New Mexico > Albuquerque

Genre/Form

• Biography
• History
• Biographies
• Biographies.

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

Father and Mother and the landscape -- Early day memories -- School and work -- Newspaper days -- Trying to become a lawyer -- Detour to El Paso -- Municipal government -- City water works -- Political destinies -- About Elfego Baca -- Bronson Cutting and Elfego Baca -- National bank failure -- The Gallup coal strike -- Libraries -- Eugene Manlove Rhodes -- Interest in regional writing -- Conclusion.

ISBN

0699112925 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

86110715

OCLC

• ocm13581562
• 13581562
• SCSB-178438

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library