Best known as the site of an alleged flying saucer crash in 1947 and the “Roswell Incident,” Roswell began as a humble trading post in the late 1860s along the Goodnight-Loving Cattle Trail and eventually grew into a metropolis of southeastern New Mexico. Once a cow town and home to famous Western figures such as John Chisum, Pat Garrett, and Capt. Joseph C. Lea, Roswell is also the birthplace of the New Mexico Military Institute, the testing grounds for Robert H. Goddard’s rockets in the 1930s, and the site of the Roswell Army Airfield and a German POW camp in the 1940s. Today Roswell is a popular tourist destination and home to more than 50,000 residents.

Roswell (Images of America: New Mexico)

Arts & Photography

LeMay, John

Photography & Video

Arcadia Publishing

Roswell (Postcards of America: New Mexico)

History

Americas

In 1889, Roswell patriarch Capt. Joseph C. Lea, Pat Garrett (the former sheriff who shot Billy the Kid), and land developer Charles B. Eddy ventured to the territorial council and house in Santa Fe to petition for the creation of two new counties from the massive Lincoln County in southeastern New Mexico. The request was granted and Chaves County officially came into being on February 25, 1889. Today, 120 years later, Chaves County still thrives with a population of more than 60,000 people and is the dairy capital of the Southwest, producing around 1.7 billion pounds of milk annually. Explored in this volume is Chaves County’s earliest peoples and settlements, including Roswell, Dexter, Hagerman, Lake Arthur, and Elk. It also takes a look at long-forgotten towns such as Acme, Blackdom, Cumberland, Greenfield and even old ranching outfits and farms such as John Chisum’s South Spring River headquarters, the Clifton Chisholm alfalfa farm, and many others.

Chaves County (Images of America)

Historical Society for Southeast New Mexico

Lincoln County is often associated with such legendary figures as outlaw Billy the Kid, Smokey the Bear, and renowned painter Peter Hurd. Named after Pres. Abraham Lincoln in 1869, the new county saw itself through many struggles, including the Lincoln County War, during which cattle barons and landowners bitterly fought over government beef contracts and farmland. At that time, Lincoln was the largest county in the United States and is now home to modern mountain towns such as Carrizozo, Capitan, Ruidoso, and the locally famous ghost town White Oaks, which had been a gold rush boomtown. Lincoln County also contains the beautiful Hondo Valley settlements and ranching communities such as Tinnie, Picacho, San Patricio, Hondo, and Glencoe. From the rolling hills of the Hondo Valley, to the bloody streets of Lincoln, all the way to the forested mountains of Capitan, this retrospective explores the area’s rich history.

Towns of Lincoln County (Images of America)

Does evidence still exist today in Roswell, New Mexico of a mysterious UFO crash from July 1947? Let this book be your guide to visiting all the sites in and around Roswell that were involved in the infamous "Roswell Incident." Experience for yourself the hidden landmarks of that fateful evening when an object from beyond Earth came streaking down out of the night sky, changing the course of human history forever.

Ultimate Guide to the Roswell UFO Crash: A Tour of Roswell's UFO Landmarks

Religion & Spirituality

Torres, Noe

Occult & Paranormal

RoswellBooks.com

Long before the first airplane took flight, when nothing but birds should have been in the skies, the early residents of the United States witnessed bizarre unidentified flying objects of all sizes, shapes, and descriptions. They encountered strange beings that clearly were not human, including "Men in Black" and possibly time travelers. They saw huge motherships, underwater UFOs, and other unexplained wonders. Some of America's most famous early historical figures, including Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, George Washington, shared an interest in UFOs and extraterrestrials. Contained within these pages is the "other" American History that you were never taught in school!

The Real Cowboys & Aliens: Early American UFOs

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Noe Torres

No, this book is not merely about the Tombstone Pterodactyl and the notorious (possibly nonexistent) Thunderbird photo. This book is in fact about every dinosaurian creature to ever have a rifle pointed at it by a cowpoke along the trail. Courtesy of real newspaper articles collected from the Pioneer Period, you’ll marvel as pterodactyls invade Van Meter, Iowa; a plesiosaur attacks spelunkers in Arkansas; and ghost dinosaurs glide across the Badlands of South Dakota! In the pages ahead you’ll ask yourself: Did Brigham Young really try to catch Utah’s Bear Lake monster? Did a Crow Medicine Man carry an enchanted Meganuera with him to Custer’s Last Stand? Was the first Komodo Dragon discovered in 1910 Indonesia or actually 1883 Indiana? Could the Marfa Lights just be bioluminescent pterodactyls? Did a theropod dinosaur kill a young boy in Crosswicks, Ohio? What was the serpent of San Marcial, New Mexico? And finally, did the Tombstone Pterodactyl live on to terrify Utah in 1903? Courtesy of newspaper reports of yore, uncover the truth of remnant dinosaurs in the Old West…

Cowboys & Saurians: Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Beasts as Seen by the Pioneers

Frogtown

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

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When you first saw this book, you probably assumed it was fiction, right? Wrong! As it turns out, America's Old West cowboys did encounter UFOs and also creatures that they believed were "aliens." This happened not in comic books and films but in real life. In this book, you will read actual eyewitness accounts describing strange objects seen in the skies, and, in some cases, the even stranger occupants of those UFOs! Did you know that many years before the reported crash of a UFO near Roswell New Mexico, another weird object fell out of the sky in Aurora, Texas, in 1897? The citizens of Aurora said the dead pilot was "not of this world," and they buried him in the local cemetery, where he may still remain today. You will also learn about the flying alien monster of Crawfordsville, Indiana; the "underwater UFO" that electrocuted two men near Tacoma, Washington; a Bigfoot creature the local Native Americans said came to earth in a "small moon;" a UFO that exploded over a Texas cotton gin; and many other bizarre UFO encounters of the Old West!

The Real Cowboys & Aliens: UFO Encounters of the Old West

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Roswell (Images of America: New Mexico)

Roswell (Postcards of America: New Mexico)

Chaves County (Images of America)

Towns of Lincoln County (Images of America)

Ultimate Guide to the Roswell UFO Crash: A Tour of Roswell's UFO Landmarks

The Real Cowboys & Aliens: Early American UFOs

Cowboys & Saurians: Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Beasts as Seen by the Pioneers

Frogtown

Frogtown

The Real Cowboys & Aliens: UFO Encounters of the Old West