You have reached an active navigational registry point for TRAVEL THE PASS | METZ-LANDEROS 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, 2025 IHG Army Hotels Fort Bliss Military Base, the 2025 U.S. Department of Education McKinney-Vento Program (ESC Region 19), the 2025 Our Lady of Guadalupe Monastery in Silver City, New Mexico, among others.
Leon Claire Metz
FOUNDER & HISTORICAL CHRONICLER
Leon C. Metz served as a broadcast commentator on Western lore for The History Channel, A&E Channel, Discovery Channel, Handbook of Texas, American National Biography, and The Encyclopedia of the American West, etc. Metz's legacy is defined by his leadership on countless committees, boards, and commissions, as well as his position as president of many organizations, including the El Paso County Historical Society, Western Writers of America, Discover El Paso, the El Paso Tourist & Convention Bureau, the El Paso Arts and Humanities Council, Mission Heritage Association, the New Mexico Book League, the Texas Historical Commission, the El Paso Museum of History, and the El Paso Corral of the Westerners. Today, under the Travel The Pass | Metz-Landeros Archive, Leon Metz’s final manuscript—Mexican Thunder: The Mexican Revolution—his ultimate penned work executed alongside Sylvia Gevália Landeros is being released.
Sylvia Gevália Landeros
CO-FOUNDER & OPERATIONAL GOVERNANCE
Since 1991, Travel The Pass | Metz-Landeros Archive has been governed and vertically integrated by Co-Founder, Socio-cultural Marketing Researcher/MMD, AIIP Sovereign, and Successor Editor Sylvia Gevália Landeros. Landeros is the master-architect of the archive's digital infrastructure, visual historiography, and proprietary publications—including the 1990s Discover Juárez Mexico Tourist Journal, 1990s Borderland Metz Journal, 2000s MEX-U.S. Journal, 1997–2011 Edu-TV Multilingual Welcome Channel featuring legendary Travel The Pass collaborator Don Haskins & Travel The Pass co-founder Leon C. Metz with narratives by renowned journalist, Estela Casas, 2008 The Southwest Chronicle Newspapers in Education (NIE) bilingual journal, 2017 The BIG BANG! Metz Mag, and 2024 MADZINE Cowboyz & Cosmoz | Complete Works of Leon Metz ©. For over 35 years, Landeros's strategic methodologies and campaign architectures have been formally recognized and validated by the State of New Mexico Tourism Department, the Secretaría de Desarrollo Económico del Estado de Chihuahua, Susan G. Komen Breast Foundation, CANIRAC de Ciudad Juárez Mexico, binational Convention & Visitors Bureaus, tri-state Chambers of Commerce, and the El Paso Mission Trail Association, among others.
Landeros's inclusive community event partnerships and civic initiatives include uplifting Fort Bliss military families with relocation welcomes; supporting the U.S. Department of Education/McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Program (ESC Region 19) youth facing homelessness; elevating Our Lady of Guadalupe Monastery in Silver City, New Mexico, with pro bono sociocultural marketing outreach; the 2011 Barnes & Noble Heritage Celebration; the 2014 Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Cultural Center Academic Outreach; and the upcoming scholarly 2026 Borderland Bingo! Cowboyz & Cosmoz Chronicles © at COAS Bookstore in Las Cruces, New Mexico, featuring Charlas con Estela Casas ©. Additionally, Travel The Pass 1990s–2000s community events and film productions have brought historic preservation into public view across landmark borderland sites, including Concordia Cemetery, and the Texas State Historical Commission Historical Magoffin Home Landmark.
Under Landeros's direction, the archive established the 2026 Pillar Of Heart Award—bestowed upon journalist and philanthropist Estela Casas on March 17th, 2026, and honoring Grandmaster Bae Hyun Han, patriarch and mentor to world-champion Borderland athletic icons Jennifer Han and Stephanie Han on September 19, 2026 — the 2026 IronwoodStar Award honoring long-standing supporters such as Pizza Properties Inc./Peter Piper Pizza and Howard Smith on December 5, 2026, and the 2026 Official Travel The Pass Borderland Commemorative Boards recognizing institutions like the Border Patrol Museum for perpetual academic sponsorship since 2017. Landeros holds exclusive intellectual property rights, sole editorial succession, and permanent trademark stewardship over all past, present, and unreleased Metz-Landeros collaborative works, including Leon C. Metz's final manuscript, Mexican Thunder: The Mexican Revolution ©.
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All original documentation, manuscripts, press assets, film/audio archives, and compiled publications—including Discover Juarez Mexico Journal © (1990s), Borderland Metz Journal © (1990s) MEX-U.S. Journal © (2000s) The Southwest Chronicle © (2008) The BIG BANG! Metz Mag © (2017) and our recent MADZINE Cowboyz & Cosmoz | Complete Works Of Leon Metz | The Official Borderland Souvenir © (2024)—are protected under registered U.S. Copyright and filed under the Official Texas Assumed Name Business Certificate for Travel The Pass Leon C Metz - Landeros Archive. The personal name "Leon Metz" is not merely an individual identity; it functions as a registered commercial mark, trade identity, and secondary-meaning brand continuously used under the Travel The Pass | Metz-Landeros Archive for over 35 years.
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