THE INEZ (NEW MEXICO) STORYAuthor - 1967

Privately Published, 1967. paperback. Very Good. 0x0x0. Privately Published, April, 1967. Booklet, 20 pp. One of 400 unnumbered copies. Signed by F. Stanley on inside of front cover. In very good condition. Yellow paper covers with red lettering and design on front. Light aging and soiling to edges of covers. Binding tight (staple bound). Pages lightly aged. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. One of the few histories of the town of Inez, New Mexico, a town once located in Roosevelt County, off of Highway 18, twenty miles south-west of Portales. It was at one time an important settlement of the county, with the first post office being established there on February 28, 1908. The town has completely disappeared. Father Stanley Francis Louis Crocchiola (1908 - 1996) was a Franciscan friar and grass roots historian who wrote under the pen name F. Stanley. He was passionate about the Wild West and developed a keen interest in the often ignored people and communities in the southwestern parishes where he began serving soon after his ordination in 1938. Beginning in 1948, he wrote over 170 books and booklets that chronicled the history of many towns in the Texas Panhandle and New Mexico. Although penniless he often financed his own printings. Never tiring in his passion, he spent his vacations in small western towns gathering research materials for his books. A big part of Father Stanley's research was done by visiting the older residents of the communities he wrote about. His series of books on small towns in New Mexico which were often limited to a few hundred copies are now quite collectible and can be easily recognized by their bright yellow covers with red lettering.