Roswell

Best known as the site of an alleged flying saucer crash in 1947 and the “Roswell Incident,” Roswell began as a humble trading post in the late 1860s along the Goodnight-Loving Cattle Trail and eventually grew into a metropolis of southeastern New Mexico. Once a cow town and home to famous Western figures such as John Chisum, Pat Garrett, and Capt. Joseph C. Lea, Roswell is also the birthplace of the New Mexico Military Institute, the testing grounds for Robert H. Goddard’s rockets in the 1930s, and the site of the Roswell Army Airfield and a German POW camp in the 1940s. Today Roswell is a popular tourist destination and home to more than 50,000 residents.

Author: John Lemay
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Published: 12/08/2008
Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.40w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780738558547
Language: English