Laguna Pueblo Laguna pueblo, with a population of around 8,000, is the largest Keresan-speaking pueblo. Located 45 miles west of Albuquerque, the Laguna Reservation land totals around 42 square miles. The area around Laguna holds evidence of archaic Indian presence as early as 3,000 B.C. It is believed…
Kirby Benedict Kirby Benedict was one of New Mexico's most colorful judges. He tried conscientiously to perform the duties entrusted to a Supreme Court judge in the early Territorial Period but was hampered by a flawed system as well as his own personal failings. Reproducing prohibited without express permission from…
A Little Boy Lost in the Apache Wars By Lori Davis On Tuesday, March 27, 1883, Judge H.C. McComas rented a wagon to take his wife Juanita and six‑year-old son Charlie from Silver City down to Pyramid City. It was initially a business trip, but…
Glencoe, Ruidoso Valley, Coe Family Coes settled here in 1880; Jasper N. Coe was the first postmaster. The Coes were among the early pioneers of Lincoln and Otero Counties. Originally from Missouri, several brothers worked the Santa Fe trail and homesteaded near Las Vegas, but in the 1870s they…
Questa- San Antonio del Rio Colorado This excerpt from Another Time in This Place: Historia, Cultura y Vida en Questa Utes (mostly Mouache and Capote bands) reached this area by around 1500AD. They were to become closely intertwined with life of early Questa-area settlers. Also visiting the area for…
A Presidial Soldier\'s Donation to the American Colonies By Virginia Sanchez On January 9, 1765, a soldier laying ill at the Royal Presidio in the Villa Capital of Santa Fe asked his teniente (lieutenant) to document his last will and testimony. In this will, Cristobal Madrid affirmed his faith…
picuris pueblo new mexico Picuris Pueblo, or Pikuria (meaning those who paint), as it was named by Spanish Juan de Oñate, was once one of the largest Pueblos. However, their population has declined, making it currently one of the smaller Pueblos with a population around 300. Picuris participated…
In 1907, James Isaac Hobbs and his wife Francis (Fannie) sold their family farm in Brown County, TX and with children Winnie, Minnie, Ella, and James Berry, moved to SE NM for Fannie's health. At the site of the site of the city that would bear their name, near…
Truth or Consequences Truth or Consequences, often abbreviated to T or C, probably is New Mexico's most often asked about and persistently controversial name. An early Spanish name for the locality has been reported to be Alamocitos, "little cottonwoods." As English-speaking settlers moved into the area, the locality came…
By Robert J. Torrez, Former New Mexico State Historian The historic village of Los Ojos was established around 1860, at about the same time that its sister communities of Las Nutritas (current day Tierra Amarilla), La Puente, Los Brazos, Barranco, and Ensenada were founded. The valley in which these…
