Nick Pappas

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Nick Pappas is an award-winning journalist who dedicated more than forty years of his life to newspapers, most recently as an editor at the Albuquerque Journal. A native of Lowell, Massachusetts, he now lives with his wife in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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Books by Nick Pappas

Crosses of Iron

The Tragic Story of Dawson, New Mexico, and Its Twin Mining Disasters

By Nick Pappas

Foreword by Richard Melzer

Winner of the 2025 Mining History Association Clark Spence Award for the "the best book in mining history published during the previous two years."

Winner of the 2024 Historical Society of New Mexico Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá Award—for outstanding publication in New Me...

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