Roswell!
Mike Smith
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I know, I said check back soon for the last Roswell Edition of the summer at the end of the previous column, “Bigfoot Gone Loco!” And yet, no new column has appeared. Well, there’s good news and bad news on that front. The bad news is I didn’t have time to complete the new column, “UFOs Over Roswell” (about UFO sightings over our fair city before and after the infamous crash), but, the good news is I didn’t have time because I was working on a new Roswell book.
The book tells Roswell’s history beginning as a humble trading post along the Goodnight-Loving Cattle Trail all the way up to the current day as a tourist destination for UFOs. For those of you familiar with Mike Smith’s excellent Towns of the Sandia Mountains, my book too is a photographic history book in the Images of America series for Arcadia Publishing. The book, to be called Roswell, has over 200 images collected from the Historical Society for Southeastern New Mexico, the Roswell Museum and Art Center, and the private collections of several prominent ufologists.
So for anyone interested in Roswell’s entire history you can read about Roswell’s founding by Van C. Smith, the arrival of Western heroes like John Chisum, Pat Garrett, and Captain Joseph C. Lea, how Roswell managed to avoid the nearby violence of the Lincoln County War (and why Billy the Kid rarely, if ever, came to town), Roswell’s growth at the discovery of Artesian water, the birth of the prestigious New Mexico Military Institue, the dark days of the Depression, the arrival of the father of modern rocketry Robert H. Goddard and his rocket tests in Eden Valley near town, the origins of the Roswell Army Airfield, a German POW Camp in the 1940s, and everyone’s favorite, The Roswell Incident, as well as what happened to the town after the closure of the base and how it eventually came to become a major tourist destination in the 1990s.
So if you’ve wished for a concise, easy to read history of Roswell, New Mexico, with tons of great photographs this will be the book you’ve been waiting for. Look for it early Fall of ‘08. Below is a sneak peak of some of the photgraphs to be included in the book.
And in the meantime, the Roswell Edition will be back up in running sometime in late August, but until then you can find my writings in the Daily Strange.
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