Description
Privately Published, April, 1966. Booklet, 20 pp. Limited to 400 copies (unnumbered). Signed by F. Stanley on inside of front cover.
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In very good condition. Yellow paper covers with red lettering on front. Hint of fading/aging along spine. Binding tight (staple bound). Pages unmarked with a few light age spots near staples at center of booklet. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. One of the few histories of the town of Carbonateville, now a ghost town. Originally Dimick and Hart's Camp, Carbonateville emerged as the mining hub in the Cerrillos Hills by spring 1879. The town thrived atop a silver carbonate deposit in the Cerrillos mining district. Despite high expectations, the construction of Cerrillos Station two miles away and the scarcity of water led to the town's abandonment. Today, very little remains of what was once New Mexico's largest town for a brief period. The author, Father Stanley Francis Louis Crocchiola (1908 - 1996), was a Franciscan friar and grass roots historian who wrote under the pen name F. Stanley. He was passionate about the Wild West and developed a keen interest in the often ignored people and communities in the southwestern parishes where he began serving soon after his ordination in 1938. Beginning in 1948, he wrote over 170 books and booklets that chronicled the history of many towns in the Texas Panhandle and New Mexico. Although penniless, he often financed his own printings. Never tiring in his passion, he spent his vacations in small western towns gathering research materials for his books. A big part of Father Stanley's research was done by visiting the older residents of the communities he wrote about. His series of books on small towns in New Mexico which were often limited to a few hundred copies are now quite collectible and can be easily recognized by their bright yellow covers with red lettering.