Spell of the Black Range

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THE SPELL OF THE
BLACK RANGE
THE REMEMBRANCES OF MILDRED ELIZABETH FULGHUM REA
The author as a child.
Left to Right: Alice Barnes Fulghum,
Mildred Elizabeth Fulghum, Roscoe W. Fulghum.
Taken in Chicago on October 11, 1897, shortly before Alice and Mildred went to the Ingersol in New Mexico.
Mildred Rea, the young girl in the photograph to the right, is the author of a series of blog entries entitled “Spell of the Black Range” which were published on The Free Range Blog during the second half of 2015. She was born in Chicago in January 1895. Her grandparents, Jay and Louise Barnes, moved to Chloride in 1881, bringing with them their 16 year old daughter, Alice (Mildred Rea’s mother and the woman in the photograph above). Some of the family’s activities are described in the Black Range newspaper, published in Chloride at that time and recounted in the 1880 -1900 Blog on The Black Range Rag. Exactly when the “Spell of the Black Range” was written is uncertain but assumed to be about 1921.
Except as noted, Images and descriptions are from The Mildred Elizabeth Fulghum Rea papers, 1880-1921. Ms 0054 New Mexico State University Library, Archives and Special Collections Department. Used with permission.
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