Bosque Peak Homestead
The western slope of Bosque Peak in the Manzano Mountains beckoned Archibald and Alice Rea as they nurtured their young family at Isleta Pueblo. Archie was a trader with the Isletas and Alice was last century's equivalent of a nurse practitioner to the Isletas. The Reas were not the first to be tempted by the majesty of this mountain, nor were they the last.
Like most tops-of-mountains, El Bosque is a powerful spot. But its power is intensified by the fact that someone - a family with a farm - once lived there on the top. In 1890, Archibald and Alice Douglass Rea moved to El Bosque -Alice's brother, Ambrose Douglass (a Gallup mining engineer), was the first to file the original homesteading claim on the mountaintop; however he was unable to follow through, so it fell to Archie and Alice to prove up the homestead.
On Demand Performance - KXNM archives Archaeology In Your Backyard as MP3 files, allowing you to listen to your favorite shows on demand, whenever you choose. Click on the audio file below to hear the story about the Bosque Homestead, or click on the Download File to read the whole story
The western slope of Bosque Peak in the Manzano Mountains beckoned Archibald and Alice Rea as they nurtured their young family at Isleta Pueblo. Archie was a trader with the Isletas and Alice was last century's equivalent of a nurse practitioner to the Isletas. The Reas were not the first to be tempted by the majesty of this mountain, nor were they the last.
Like most tops-of-mountains, El Bosque is a powerful spot. But its power is intensified by the fact that someone - a family with a farm - once lived there on the top. In 1890, Archibald and Alice Douglass Rea moved to El Bosque -Alice's brother, Ambrose Douglass (a Gallup mining engineer), was the first to file the original homesteading claim on the mountaintop; however he was unable to follow through, so it fell to Archie and Alice to prove up the homestead.
On Demand Performance - KXNM archives Archaeology In Your Backyard as MP3 files, allowing you to listen to your favorite shows on demand, whenever you choose. Click on the audio file below to hear the story about the Bosque Homestead, or click on the Download File to read the whole story