Costco to Host Book Signing for Local Albuquerque Author

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Nov. 7, 2013 - PRLog -- As a 21-year-old German immigrant, Franz Huning could not have envisioned his future in New Mexico when in 1849 he signed on as a "bull whacker" for a wagon train heading down the Santa Fe Trail. From his beginnings as a clerk in Albuquerque's Old Town, Huning's entrepreneurial talents flourished over the next half-century. He took on the roles of merchant, flour mill operator and land speculator. He helped to secure Albuquerque as a division point with a depot, offices and major repair shops for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway.

Huning's 700-acre estate, home to the once legendary but now demolished Castle Huning, fronted Albuquerque's main thoroughfare midway between Old Town and the bustling new downtown one mile east. It was a front row seat to the city's development after the flood prone Rio Grande was stabilized. Huning's former estate is now home to fine, diverse homes near the Albuquerque Country Club as well as historic Route 66, Tingley Beach, the zoo, the Little Theatre and a Christmas Eve luminaria tradition.

Join the author for a signing:

Where:  Costco

1420 Renaissance Boulevard NE, Albuquerque NM 87107

When:  Friday, November 22^nd, 2013; 11:00 a.m. —2:00 p.m.

Available at area bookstores, independent retailers, and online retailers, or through Arcadia Publishing at (888)-313-2665 or online. (http://www.arcadiapublishing.com/9780738596778/Albuquerqu...)

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Jane Mahoney is an Albuquerque freelance writer with a love of rambling and history. A journalism graduate of the University of Kansas, she grew up on the high plains of northwestern Kansas and accompanied her father on his explorations of the Butterfield Overland Despatch.

Albuquerque’s Huning Castle Neighborhoods

by Jane Mahoney

Images of America series

128 pages/ softcover

Available: February 25, 2013