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Victims of the 1748 Epidemic in El Paso del Norte

Transcription and Translation by Rick Hendricks 1) Gertrudis Velarde, wife of Marcial Avilés, 6 Jan. 2) Estanislao Ramírez, husband of Juan Pascuala Castillo, cabo de escuadra of the Terenate presidio, 8 Jan. 3) Gabriel Cano, Indian of the Pueblo de Abajo, husband of Josefa, 22 Jan. 4) Marcos de…

Victims of the Typhus Epidemic in El Paso de Norte, 1764

Transcription and Translation by Rick Hendricks                                                                           1763 1) José Lucero, husband of Josefa Martínez, 23 Oct. T (Typhus) 2) Antonio, párvulo, Indian servant of Horacio Durán, 6 Nov. T {228} 3) Cristóbal Trujillo, husband of Felipa Ochoa, 25 Nov. T {264} 4) Diego Hidalgo, husband of Gertrudis Berdugo,…

The Park View Colony

Rober J. Tórrez Several agricultural colonies were established in New Mexico during the last decades of the nineteenth century. One of the earliest and least known of these was Park View, a settlement established in northern New Mexico by a Chicago based corporation in 1876. The Park View colony…

White Sands Missile Range Established

By Michael Ann Sullivan The White Sands Missile Range lies in the Tularosa Basin, a dramatic natural geologic formation of gypsum sand dunes created by the erosion of gypsum rich rock from the San Andres and Sacramento Mountains. The Basin was exposed 70 million years ago when an event…

Respuesta de José María Vizcarra a un oficio sobre su expedición a los Comanches

Transcripción de Rick Hendricks   José María Vizcarra, respuesta a un oficio sobre su expedición a los Comanches, Santa Fe, 18 de octubre de 1824, MANM, r. 3, f. 934-35.   Contesta oficio en que se le desaprueva la expedicion a los Comanches da los motivos para que…