The foregoing article, taken from the…
source date: 1889
availability: public-domain

The foregoing article, taken from the March 1952 issue of the New Mexico Magazine, is published here because it portrays so well the character of so many of New Mexico’s pioneer women. It is true that Mrs. Wright and Mrs. Warren were outstanding examples, but there were many, many of these pio- neer women, grandmothers and great- grandmothers of many of our present- day prominent families, whose stories were never told but whose pioneering spirit, equaled and even surpassed that of the two whose story you have read.