Jornada Experimental Range photographs, 1900-1960.
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Rio Grande Historical Collections
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The Faithist movement was founded by a New York dentist and doctor named John B. Newbrough, who claimed to have written a new Bible, called Oahspe, while under spirit control. Contained in this Bible was "The Book of Shalam," which set forth a plan for gathering the outcast and orphaned children of the world and raising them, according to strict religious principles, to be the spiritual leaders of a new age. Newbrough and some twenty Faithists, as his followers were called, decided to create suc...
Jornada Experimental Range
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The Jornada Experimental Range was created by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1912 with the mission of developing new knowledge of ecosystem processes for a basis in management and remediation of desert rangelands. The range, under the direction of the United State Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service and New Mexico State University, has been the subject of continuous research activities on desert ecology, desert agriculture and management of desert rangelands since it...