Tales from the Tularosa Basin: Great White Sands, Part VII

Tales from the Tularosa Basin: Great White Sands, Part VII

Candice McDonaldFor the Alamogordo News The Tularosa Basin and the White Sands were about to change profoundly after President Herbert Hoover lost re-election and stomped back to California in 1932, leaving a country battered by the Great Depression. “Hoovervilles” full of the homeless spread from coast to coast; bread lines and soup lines stretched for blocks in the cities. WWI veterans marched on Washington asking for their promised military b…