Papers, 1951-1984.

New Mexico Press Women.

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Bullock, Alice, 1904-1986

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Alice Bullock was a well-known amateur historian and author who spent much of her life writing about the legends and folklore of rural New Mexico. She was born July 4, 1904 in Oklahoma. Her family moved to New Mexico in 1912. A graduate of Highlands University, she moved to Santa Fe in 1941, and taught school. In the 1950s she wrote hundreds of fictional stories. In the 1960s, she began writing about New Mexico people and places. She visited the small towns of New Mexico and recorded the old-tim...

New Mexico Folklore Society

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Established in the spring of 1931, the purpose of the Society is to collect and preserve New Mexico folklore. The Society has sponsored many exhibits, lectures, folklore festivals, and publications. From 1944 until 1946, members participated in a project for the American Dialect Society, which was to collect proverbial sayings in English found in both written and oral traditions in New Mexico. In 1947, the Society began publication of the New Mexico Folklore Record . From the guide t...