Legendary Locals of Las Cruces

When Las Cruces was founded 164 years ago near a group of crosses marking the graves of travelers and soldiers, a rawhide rope separated acreage for a church, a cemetery, and family lots. That rawhide rope brought to Las Cruces a new era filled with the exhilaration of the Wild West and the people who molded 'the City of the Crosses.' Over the decades, the number of local men, women, and children who deserve recognition as heroes of history or champions of the present is infinite, including Dr.