Daniel Rivera Flores

Otros Recuerdos is the fourth book in my Recuerdos series. It follows Recuerdos, Recuerdos II, and Recuerdos III. All the books in this series are a collection of short vignettes about events that have occurred in Guadalupe county since the late 1800s. This installment of the Recuerdos series...

Ghost Towns of Guadalupe County is about the nearly seventy communities or settlements in Guadalupe County, New Mexico, that have been abandoned or nearly abandoned and are often classified as ghost towns. The author has listed the ghost towns alphabetically and provides a description of each one. ...

Cuentos del Puerto de Luna relates many old cuentos, stories, and lore about the historic Guadalupe county village of Puerto de Luna. Puerto de Luna, founded in 1862, is rich in history and lore. The cuentos are presented as vignettes that each tell a story about an event or a happening in Pu...

Alexander Grzelachowski is best remembered by historians as the Puerto de Luna merchant who served Billy the Kid his last Christmas dinner on December 25, 1880. The young outlaw was being transported to jail in Las Vegas by Lincoln county Sheriff Pat Garrett. Grzelachowski immigrated to the United ...

Alexander Grzelachowski: Book II is being written as a follow-up to Alexander Grzelachowski: Puerto de Luna's Renaissance Man published in June 2012. The author is Grzelachowski's great-grandson, Daniel Flores, who grew up in Puerto de Luna in his grandparents' residence. His grandmother was Letic...

Alexander Grzelachowski and Capt. John G. Clancey were two pioneers in territorial New Mexico. Both of them lived in what was then San Miguel county in the area around Puerto de Luna. Grzelachowski established a business in Puerto de Luna in 1873. Capt. Clancey came to the area in the same year,...

Más Cuentos del Anton Chico is being written as a follow up to Cuentos del Anton Chico. It includes more cuentos, stories or vignettes, about the rich and colorful past of the Anton Chico area. Many of the vignettes include old articles taken from early New Mexico newspapers. At one time ther...

Anton Chico is one of the two oldest communities on the eastern part of New Mexico, the area from the Pecos river to the Texas border. The only community older than Anton Chico is San Miguel del Vado, located on the Pecos river and on the old Santa Fe Trail. The name of that village used the older...