Mexican American Historian

There is an interview with Cleofas Calleros by Cesar Caballero in the UTEP Oral History Collection

No. 153.1 ACEVEDO, Mario (1900 - )
Interviewed by Ce sar Caballero
Type of Resource: Tape and transcript, in Spanish
Date: April 9, 1973
Terms of use: Unrestricted
Length of Interview:20 minutes
Length of transcript:8 pages


(Retired Lt. Colonel in the Texas National Guard; community leader) Recollections of Cleofas Calleros and his defense of the Mexican American. There are also collections of his papers at UTEP and at the Border Heritage Center (EP Public Library downtown) see our Calleros guide in Potential Topics for more info. http://www.epcc.edu/nwlibrary/borderlands/Topics/cleofas_calleros_sources.htm

I think that this is a good place to start on researching Mr. Calleros. Also, I think that we could get Cesar Caballero email and he may have more information. Mr. Caballero is a librarian who was very active in establishing a Chicano Studies Department at UTEP and was very active in Mecha, the Mexican American Student activist organization in the 1970s and 1980s. 

 Dear Marina Payne or other Pinos Altos researchers:

1. I looked in the Password Index under  the words "Ghost Towns" and found a book review of the book by Betty Woods, Ghost Towns And How to Get to Them.

2. I looked up this book by title in the online card catalog and did not find it but did find this book listed below at F 796. S47 1975:
Ghost towns and mining camps of New Mexico   I am saving this book under your name at the Reference Desk.

In research you go from one piece of info to another.

notice that the subject listed for Ghost towns and mining camps of New Mexico is "Extinct Cities of New Mexico" Click on this link and you will see other books.  Look in their indexes to see if they cover Pinos Altos. These books are located in other EPCC campus libraries and you can order them at the Circulation Desk. 

You can search the UTEP Library using the EPCC Library.

Note the tab "Find at UTEP Library" at the top of the screen.  Click and you will automatically do the search on the subject "Extinct Cities of New Mexico" and gues what, we found the book we were looking for:

Ghost towns and how to get to them by Betty Woods; maps by M. T. Williams. Scene: New Mexico.   This particular book cannot be checked out, since it is in Special Collections, but the section can be photocopied.  Spec. Coll. Southwest F 801.W66 1964 


Get a TexShare Card to check out books from the UTEP Library

Get a TexShare Card at our Circulation Desk and go to UTEP to check out other  other books that the UTEP Library has on "Extinct Cities of New Mexico"

At Borderlands Research Guide you can search other libraries

Now I am going to check the Public Library as another option. Go to the Borderlands Research Guide Other Libraries link. Click on the Public Library . Change the drop box to "General Keyword" and search the keywords "New Mexico ghost Towns" and you will see 14 books listed.   

Hurrah we have found at least 18 books that may have info on Pinos Altos.

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Rachel and Helen
Rachel (murphree@elp,.rr.com)
Helen (helencarmenbell@gmail.com)