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Settling the West
vided with a place of their own,
as the Quakers were in Penn-
sylvania, and the Catholics in
Maryland.
No landholding companies
enticed them with promises of
generous subsidies. No gov-
ernment sponsored them.
They arrived with little
more than a special set of be-
liefs, sensitivities, skills that
enabled some of them to
negotiate their way into a new
world, a new way of life with
abilities others didn't have.
It was an asset that led to
the establishment of economic
enclaves of considerable im-
portance in the five major colo-
nial towns of New York, Phila-
delphia, Newport, Charleston
and Savannah at a time when
the population of America was
overwhelmingly rural. _
Although most Jews who
came to colonial America set-
tled in these towns, others at
one time or another ventured
to remote areas of the country.
As early as 1719, Lewis Moses
Gomez began accumulating
sizable tracts of land in
Orange County, New York, to
further his trade with the Indi-
ans.
Some six miles north of
Newburgh, Gomez built an
outpost near a brook where
Algonquin tribes would meet
before and after hunting -ex-
peditions. Here he and his sons
Daniel 'and David haggled
with twenty to thirty Indians
at a time over how much whis-
key or how many trinkets con-
stituted a fair price for a mink,
a muskrat or a sable. The mas-
sive walls of the Gomez out-
post are still standing, a monu-
ment to their success in the
New World.
The Solomons of
Solomonville
353 9526
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In the I tad-n me L., 1,3 - ei i.
tury a vast expanse of land
stretching from the. Great
Plains to beyond the Rocky
Mountains was inhabited
almost exclusively by various
Indian tribes. With the excep-
tion of a few Mormon com-
munities around the Great
Salt Lake and a sprinkling of
trading outposts along the
banks of the upper Rio
Grande, the white man was
hardly anywhere to be seen.
Within thirty years all this
had changed.
First came mining camps in
the mountains and cattle
kingdoms on the grasslands.
Then came towns and villages
and farms, hastened into exist-
ence by the colonizing efforts
of railroads. The Northern
Pacific, with 40 million acres
to dispose of, encouraged emi-
grants from Europe and the
eastern half of the country to
come west. Other railroads
worked just as hard to move
settlers in until a solid band of
states stretched clear across
American Jewish Archives
The Menken brothers of
Cincinnati in their Civil War
uniforms. Though only 150,000
Jews resided in America at this
time, over 7,500 fought on both
sides.
the continent. By 1890 the
frontier was no more.
Many of the first Jews to
come to this part of the country
were immigrants from Rus-
sian- and Prussian-controlled
Poland, who settled initially in
the East and then moved on by
rail and covered wagon to take
advantage of greater opportu-
nities in what was then called
the new country."
So it was with Isidor Solo-
mon and his wife Anna who
left the Polish shtetl of Krush-
witz behind them shortly after
the Civil War for a better life
in America. Having experi-
enced business failure after
business failure in the East,
the Solomons — by now a
family of five — decided in
1876 to take the advice of
Anna's brothers in New Mex-
ico and try their luck there.
We sold everything we pos-
sessed [recalled Anna] except
our three children and started
on our journey for New Mex-
ico. We had a very hard trip .. .
Traveling with those three
babies was bad enough, but
when we reached La Junta,
the end of the railroad in those
days, [we] had to travel by
stage, packed in like sardines
day and night for six days.
[We] only stopped to change
horses and get something to
eat, like chili con came and
frijoles.
"I lived in Las Cruces with
the children for four months
while my husband looked
around for a location for our
business. He finally found a
place, and this is where we
have been living for thirty
years.
When we were going to
leave Las Cruces (for our new
home), we bought a two-seated
wagon called a buck board,
and a pair of horses. Into this
we put a tent, some bedding,
our cooking utensils, our pro-
visions, our clothes, our chil-
dren, and ourselves. We also
brought a Mexican clerk
along, but he came on horse-
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