Blue Bloods in Blue Jeans

From Switzerland England and Ireland they came and landed on the east coast of the New World. When the West beckoned they answered the clarion call. By boat on horseback in covered wagons and on foot they came to Texas and New Mexico. Their trials struggles successes failures and tragedies are my legacy. The value system of these western pioneers-adventurers soldiers ranchers miners cowboys cowgirls and entrepreneurs-formed the warp and woof of my life which began in the New Mexico Territory one year before New Mexico became a state. New Mexico and I grew up together; our histories are intertwined. Marguerite Harrington Benedict