Travel The Pass | Leon Metz-Landeros Archive

Leon Claire Metz (1930-2020) | Legendary Historian of the Texas, New Mexico, and Mexico Region : Leon Metz-Landeros™ | Travel The Pass Archive Est.1991 | Preserving the official research and chronicles of award-winning Southwestern historian Leon C. Metz, established in collaboration with co-founder Sylvia Gevália Landeros. Our works are permanently chronicled within prestigious repositories—including the Library of Congress, UTEP Special Collections, and NMSU Special Collections—and gifted to visiting dignitaries at Fort Bliss Military Base since the 1990s. This institutional gravity is backed by multi-decadal honors: the 1985 Saddleman Award from the Western Writers of America; 1997 endorsements from the Gobierno del Estado de Chihuahua, Mexico, and the 2004 New Mexico State Department of Tourism; the 2010 Ruth Lester Lifetime Achievement Award from the Texas Historical Commission; and a 2024 City of El Paso, Texas, Proclamation, among others.​ https://www.leoncmetz.com