1826 Thomas F. Bowler By Rick Hendricks, Ph.D. Born in Virginia about 1826, Thomas F. Bowler was living in Santa Fe in mid-December 1850 when the United States Federal Census was enumerated. At the time of the census, Bowler was described as a clerk living in the same household…
Sandra Begay was born into the Náneesht’ézhí Táchii’nii (charcoal streaked people), her mother Cecilia M. Begay’s Clan, and the Tó dích'íinii Clan (bitter water people), her father Edward T. Begay’s Clan, on June 10, 1963, in the town of Gallup, New Mexico. She grew up in a modern setting…
By Robert Torrez On September 22, 1846, General Stephen Watts Kearny instituted a new set of laws under which New Mexico was to be governed. To administer these new laws, which have become known as the Kearny Code, General Kearny appointed Charles Bent as the first civil governor of…
This is a part of Part II, Volume Four of a Six Volume series, Private Land Claims in the Southwest, submitted by J. J. Bowden in 1969 as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Laws in Oil and Gas at Southern Methodist University. Volume…
9 9 1868 Mary Hunter Austin was born on September 9, 1868 in Carlinville, Illinois (the fourth of six children) to George and Susannah (Graham) Hunter. She graduated from Blackburn College in 1888. For 17 years she made a special study of Indian life in the Mojave Desert, and…
Lordsburg Several explanations exist for the name of the town of Lordsburg. One version is that the town took the surname of a man who had a chain of eating places along the railroad. Another is that it was the name of the engineer in charge of the construction…
San Buenaventura Mission Church 1596 Cochiti Pueblo and church. Photo taken in by H.S. Poley. Native American San Buenaventura Mission Church, at Cochiti Pueblo, New Mexico; an adobe church with railing and balcony above the entrance, support posts, a stepped arch belfry, and a walled courtyard with an…
La Cienega La Ciénega was a seventeenth- century pueblo that was resettled by Spaniards in the early eighteenth century. Schackel notes that it was also called El Guicú, San José del Guicú, and La Cañada del Guicú in the eighteenth century (Schackel 1979:5-8). In 1777, Juan Candelaria’s 1777 reminiscences…
"The true beauty and significance of this collection lies not in the talent of the artists, but in the subject matter they choose to capture. DeHuff's students chose to paint symbols, figures, stories, dances, ceremonies, and designs of their heritage. These paintings capture both the cultures of the artists,…
1584 Excerpted from Pueblo Resistance: We Are Here," Courtesy of the National Museum of American History–Smithsonian Institution. Reproducing prohibited without express permission from the Smithsonian Institution Archives.
