Elizabethtown By F. Stanley Dumas, Texas March, 1961 Indirectly, General James H. Carleton was responsible for Elizabethtown. The soldiers at Fort Craig, Pinos Altos, Fort Stanton and Fort Union were dissatisfied with their lot as Indian fighters and voiced a desire to join the Union Army where the fighting…
Navajo Nation Navajo Nation: From Prehistory to the Twentieth Century Contributed by the National Parks Service. All Rights Reserved The exact moment of the arrival of the Navajo people in the Southwest remains the subject of dispute. The standard view of archeologists and anthropologists suggests that when the Spanish…
By Teresa B. Maes December 2, 1958 Introduction “. . . . . . . . His worth is commemorated by the beautiful canyon of the Fort Union Military Reserve which bears his name.”1 Shoemaker, New Mexico, the beautiful Canyon in Mora County has had its…
Sandia Pueblo Tuf Shurn Tia, Green Reed Place, is the traditional name for Sandia Pueblo. Sandia Pueblo is one of the four Tiwa speaking pueblos, and is located 15 miles north of Albuquerque, totaling 22,877 acres of land. Sandia is located on the east side of the Rio…
4 4 1869 By Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint To the modern traveler visiting New Mexico "Santa Fe style" conjures many images but early in the 20th Century, it signified a new American expression of urban architecture and design. Mary Colter was at the forefront of the mission…
by David Kammer Nowhere in the United States is a regional architecture more evident than in New Mexico and sections of surrounding states where elements of prehistoric, Spanish colonial and Territorial building practices continue to find expression in many contemporary residences as well as public, civic and institutional, and…
Los Lentes By Patty Guggino Los Lentes, a small village on the west bank of the Rio Grande several miles south of Isleta Pueblo, is identified in the Spanish Census of 1790 as La Plaza de San Antonio.(8) This identification of the village with the patron saint of the…
This land grant was petitioned by Nicolas Romero and 12 families in 1754. Governor Tomas Velez Cachupin approved the grant for 20,000 acres. Proceedings before the office of Surveyor General and the Court of Private Land Claims confirmed the grant for 14,786 acres. Truchas was one of the first…
The grant was approved by Governor Gaspar Domingo de Mendoza for 2,137 acres. Proceedings before the Court of Private Land Claims confirmed the grant for 2,137 acres. A close-knit community located in Santa Fe County, the land grant heirs rallied together in 1926, and defeated an erroneous tax assessment…
The Town of Jacona Grant is also known as the Ignacio de Roibal Grant. Located in Santa Fe County it was petitioned by Ignacio Roibal in 1702, and is considered a “quasi-community grant." Governor Pedro Rodriguez Cubero approved the grant for 46, 341 acres. It went before the office…
