by Malcolm Ebright Galisteo Pueblo was the largest of the several occupied pre-Revolt pueblos in the Galisteo Basin with a population of about 800 Tano Indians at the time of the Pueblo Revolt in 1680. Other well known Galisteo Basin Pueblos included San Cristobal, San Marcos, and San Lazaro….
by Malcolm Ebright Gervacio (Gervais) Nolan was a French-Canadian fur-trapper and trader who came to New Mexico in 1824 with fellow French Canadian Charles Beaubien. Both became Mexican citizens in 1829, married local Hispanic women, and raised families in the Taos area, though Beaubien is much better known than…
by Malcolm Ebright The Ojo Caliente area is the site of several prehistoric pueblos and hot springs from which the area derives its name. These springs were sacred to ancient Pueblo people who abandoned their pueblos in the early 1500s. The prehistoric pueblo closest to and most connected to…
by Denise Damico The Mesilla Civil Colony land grant was established in the midst of a dispute between the governments of the United States and Mexico concerning the location of the new national border between the two, a result of the Mexican War and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo….
by Michael Miller The Juan Bautista Valdez grant was petitioned in 1807, by Juan Bautista Valdez who was resident of the Town of Abiquiu and a loyal subject to the Spanish crown. Valdez and seven companions requested two thousand varas in the Canon de los Pedernales. Manuel Garcia the…
La Llorona "The Weeping Woman" By Joe Hayes This is a story that the old ones have been telling to children for hundreds of years. It is a sad tale, but it lives strong in the memories of the people, and there are many who swear that it is…
Pindi and Agua Freehouse Schoolhouse Pueblos Two 13th-Century Settlements in Santa Fe, New Mexico By Jason S. Shapiro, Ph.D. During the early twelfth century Santa Fe was home to a number of small pueblo style settlements with at most only a few dozen rooms, but by the mid-thirteenth century…
2014 History Scholars and Topics Speaker Lecture Title Ramona Caplan “The Unique Friendship of Lee Marmon, George Clay Pearl and Artie Bibo” Maurice Crandall “American Indian Voting in Mexican New Mexico and Arizona, 1821—1846” William Carlton “Fabian Garcia and the New Mexico Chile” Candolin Cook " 'The Makings…
By Arthur (Seligman) Scott In 1849, only three years after the Army of the West occupied and claimed for the United States present-day New Mexico from Mexico, my great uncle, nineteen-year-old Sigmund Seligman immigrated from Gau-Algesheim in Germany and traveled west on the Santa Fe Trail to Santa Fe….
On June 24,1997, U.S. Air Force officials release a 231-page report dismissing long-standing claims of an alien spacecraft crash in Roswell, New Mexico, almost exactly 50 years earlier. Public interest in Unidentified Flying Objects, or UFOs, began to flourish in the 1940s, when developments in space travel and the…
