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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date:
1921 Original Publisher: Publishers Press Subjects: New Mexico
History / United States / General History / United States / State
General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date:
1921 Original Publisher: Publishers Press Subjects: New Mexico
History / United States / General History / United States / State
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
LeBaron Bradford Prince (1840-1922) was a transplanted New Yorker,
a tireless judge, a controversial territorial governor, a gentleman
scholar, and an early leader of the Historical Society of New
Mexico. In all these roles, and others, he was a passionate
advocate of New Mexico statehood. Prince was born, raised, and
educated in New York. As a young attorney, his political career in
state politics had progressed well until he clashed with leaders of
the state Republican Party machine. Salvaging his political
fortunes in the West, Prince won appointment as the chief justice
of the New Mexico Supreme Court in 1879. By all accounts, no
territorial judge worked harder than Prince, often hearing cases
from 8:00 in the morning until 11:00 at night. In what time
remained in his busy days, Prince compiled a 603-page volume of
territorial laws and began to write history with the clear purpose
of advocating New Mexico statehood. His first work on New Mexico
history, entitled "Historical Sketches of New Mexico from the
Earliest Records to the American Occupation," appeared in 1883.
"New Mexico's Struggle for Statehood" (1910) and "The Student's
History of New Mexico" (1921) followed. All are included in
Sunstone's Southwest Heritage Series. This new edition of "New
Mexico's Struggle for Statehood" includes a facsimile of the
original edition along with a new foreword by Richard Melzer, PhD,
a biographical sketch from "History of New Mexico" (1891) by Helen
Haines, and a tribute to the memory of L. Bradford Prince from a
publication of the Historical Society of New Mexico, No. 25.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
LeBaron Bradford Prince (1840-1922) was a transplanted New Yorker,
a tireless judge, a controversial territorial governor, a gentleman
scholar, and an early leader of the Historical Society of New
Mexico. In all these roles, and others, he was a passionate
advocate of New Mexico statehood. Prince was born, raised, and
educated in New York. As a young attorney, his political career in
state politics had progressed well until he clashed with leaders of
the state Republican Party machine. Salvaging his political
fortunes in the West, Prince won appointment as the chief justice
of the New Mexico Supreme Court in 1879. By all accounts, no
territorial judge worked harder than Prince, often hearing cases
from 8:00 in the morning until 11:00 at night. In what time
remained in his busy days, Prince compiled a 603-page volume of
territorial laws and began to write history with the clear purpose
of advocating New Mexico statehood. His first work on New Mexico
history, entitled "Historical Sketches of New Mexico from the
Earliest Records to the American Occupation," appeared in 1883.
This new edition, part of Sunstone's award-winning Southwest
Heritage Series, includes a facsimile of this original edition
along with a new foreword by Richard Melzer, PhD, a biographical
sketch from "History of New Mexico" (1891) by Helen Haines, and a
tribute to the memory of L. Bradford Prince from a publication of
the Historical Society of New Mexico, No. 25. Prince's "The
Student's History of New Mexico" and "New Mexico's Struggle for
Statehood" are also included in Sunstone's Southwest Heritage
Series.
L. Bradford Prince was one of seven territorial governors who
attended the January 15th inauguration of New Mexico's first state
governor, William C. McDonald, in New Mexico's long-awaited
statehood year, 1912. Within a year of that auspicious occasion,
Prince published "A Concise History of New Mexico," a condensation
and revision of his "Historical Sketches" of 1883. His purpose in
1913 was to provide a "little volume" that might be of use in the
now-required teaching of New Mexico history in the state's public
schools. The passage of a public school bill during his term as
governor had been considered an important step toward the
attainment of statehood. The publication of a state history
textbook was meant to be an important contribution to New Mexico
public education once statehood had been achieved. But within a
year of its publication, Prince affirmed that the length and price
of the already brief "Concise History" was excessive for most
public schools and students. While still recommending "A Concise
History" for teachers and most adults, Prince offered an even more
focused, 174-page work, entitled "The Student's History of New
Mexico." Now, instead of using history to argue the case for New
Mexico statehood, Prince's chief goal was to use history to help
create pride in New Mexico for the "clear-eyed, pure hearted, noble
minded youth" of the nation's newest state. These future citizens
could take pride in both their past, "the most interesting of all
American state histories," and in the special qualities of
individual groups whose collective story was "unrivaled in ancient
or modern times." Convinced that "The Student's History" had served
its purpose well, Prince later updated his book with an additional
ten pages about New Mexico's first few years of statehood. This
second edition of "The Student's History" appeared in 1921, a year
before Prince's death, and this is the edition Sunstone Press is
publishing in its Southwest Heritage Series. The second edition of
"The Student's History" is also offered as a brief history of New
Mexico of value to the general reader sophisticated enough to
recognize its biases, but astute enough to appreciate its many
facts. If this unique telling of New Mexico's past adds to our
pride in being New Mexicans-or helps others to better understand
New Mexico-then L. Bradford Prince will have achieved his purpose
long after he departed his beloved New Mexico, once a striving
territory and now a productive member of the nation's family of
states.
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