On Friday. the last traveling day before heading home, we headed out to the hills to look at the area north and west of Albuquerque where Morris and Maud Gottlieb and their family had spent some years. Morris was a jeweler by trade, but had an opportunity to work at a trading post. He took it, and the time spent there was most memorable for his children.
We were most fortunate to be guided on our driving tour by Phil "Sonny" Bibo, a long-time area resident whose family figured in several wild stories of the area. We met up with him at a current trading post owned by, of all people, a distant cousin of the Gottliebs named Kevin Gottlieb. Not quite sure where he fits in but... He had a photograph of the Cubero Trading Post where Morris had worked as it was in its heyday.
When we got over to Cubero itself, it was a little sad to see the burned-out broken-down remains of the trading post -- all that remains from a fire that destroyed the last attempt to make a go of it at that location.
From there we drove around the area and over to Laguna, site of another trading post, and of a small town near where Fred Gottlieb remembers working on a sheep farm. You can see the whole town from a vantage point on the interstate these days.
Pretty country there and back... mesas and ridgelines would be a geologists dream.
And that's it for now. Still working on the notes of the meetings with all the cousins and folks and that should follow as soon as I can get it finished!
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New Mexico Family, April 2004
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Cubero Trading Post
- then
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Cubero Trading Post
- now
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Cubero looking back
to ravine
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Church at Laguna
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Laguna
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Mesa ridge
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Mesas
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