“Boyer was a cook for J.J. Hagerman, who established the Pecos Valley Line, when Clovis was being planned and assisted when the survey of the city was made.”
Las Cruces Sun-News, Sunday, March 30, 1947
At the turn of the 20th Century, Frank Boyer had the vision to build an all-Black county in Southeastern New Mexico while working as a cook for J. J. Hagerman, one of the wealthiest power brokers in the state of New Mexico. Hagerman donated forty acres of land north of Roswell and Captain Joseph Lea (Confederate Army) founded the Goss Military Institute named for the Confederate Colonel. Boyer’s time as a cook for Hagerman was a time of apprenticeship on how to turn stolen Indigenous desert land into personal sovereignty.
by Dr. Timothy E. Nelson ©
Roswell Daily Record, Monday, May 24, 1920 pg3
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