À l'ouest du Pécos

In the fall of 1891, almost two hundred French-speaking Swiss emigrated to the Pecos Valley, a desert region in southeastern New Mexico. Intense promotion in our country of the miraculous tr... Read allIn the fall of 1891, almost two hundred French-speaking Swiss emigrated to the Pecos Valley, a desert region in southeastern New Mexico. Intense promotion in our country of the miraculous transformations had convinced them that they could make their fortune there. Farmers, winegr... Read allIn the fall of 1891, almost two hundred French-speaking Swiss emigrated to the Pecos Valley, a desert region in southeastern New Mexico. Intense promotion in our country of the miraculous transformations had convinced them that they could make their fortune there. Farmers, winegrowers or young adventurers from good families, the Swiss settlers would spend two years tr... Read all