Also in this story: The Staab/Ilfeld descendant who won a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case on behalf of the Apaches. Thurgood Marshall wrote the majority opinion of the court.
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Teenage Jews, members of the Staab and Ilfeld families left Germany in the mid 1800s and settled in the Wild West. Julia Staab had a scary encounter with Billy the Kid. Hebrew was written in stone above a cathedral entrance. Ludwig Ilfeld landed a role in the movie, The Rattlesnake.
There were rumors of a ghost at the Palace Avenue mansion. Hopi snake dancers, a horse named Maude, a President and a freed slave appear in this true story of family, friendship and adventure in New Mexico.
Read about Staab/Ilfeld sites to visit in New Mexico!
(they were not crypto jews-secret Jews)
Read about their many mitzvahs
Interest Level--Ages 8 to 108
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