The Morleys - Young Upstarts on the Southwest Frontier
signed first edition
1971 · Albuquerque, New Mexico
by Cleveland, Norman and George Fitzpatrick
Albuquerque, New Mexico: Calvin Horn, Publisher, 1971 First edition. Presentation inscription, signed by the author< Norman Cleaveland. xi, [1], 270pp. Nineteen vintage photographs, map endpapers. Notes, bibliography, index. Red cloth. A very fine copy with slightly chipped pictorial dust jacket. William Raymond Morley (1846-1883) was a railroad locator. In the Civil War, Morley was responsible for restoring the Chattanooga and Atlanta railroad line for Sherman. He then was manager for the Maxwell land grant in New Mexico and briefly editor of the Cimarron, New Mexico News and Press, had run-ins with Clay Allison. Morley then joined the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, working as a line locater. He became "the man who could locate a line through wild country better than most rail pioneers." Morley was a significant factor in the Santa Fe's seizure of a route over Raton Pass into New Mexico, as well as the Royal Gorge route along the upper Arkansas River near present Canon City. Ultimately Morely accidently shot himself with his Winchester.. (Inventory #: 8117)