FIFTH LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY, ———- Convened at Santa Fe on the first Monday in December, 1855. ———- COUNCIL. PRESIDENT.—Fecundo Pino, of Santa Fe County. CLERK.—Elias T. Clark. SERGEANT-AT-ARMS.—Antonio J. Salacar. TAOS.—Jose Antonio Ortiz, Juan Benito Valdez, Pascual Martinez. Rio ARRIBA.—Jose Antouio Martinez, Pablo Gallegos. SANTA FE.—Fecundo Pino, Simon Delgado. SAN…
SIXTH LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY, ———- Convened at Santa Fe on the first Monday in December, 1856. ———- COUNCIL. PRESIDENT —Fecundo Pino, of Santa Fe County, CLERK,—Elias T. Clark. SERGEANT-AT-ARMS.—Jose Tafoya. TAOS.—Antonio Jose Ortiz, Pascual Martinez, La Fayette Head. Rio ABRIBA.—Jose Antonio Manzanares, Pablo Gallegos. SANTA FE.—Fecundo Pino, Simon Deigado. SAN…
FOURTH LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY, ———- Convened at Santa Fe first Monday in December, 1854. ———- COUNCIL. PRESIDENT.—Jose Antonio Baca y Pino, of Socorro County. CLERK.—EliasT. Clark. SERGEANT-AT-AKMS.—Aniceto Valdez. TAOS.—James H. Quinn, George Gold, Jose Ma Martinez, Vicente Martinez. RIO ARRIBA.—Jose Antonio Manzanares. SANTA FE.— SAN MIGUEL.—Jose Ulibarri, Antonio Baca y…
In the Four Corners region of the state, the traditional houses of the Diné (Navajo) dot the landscape. While styles vary across time periods and are influenced by available materials, a hogan almost always opens to the East to greet the sun, and is most commonly a one-room circular…
Chihuahua Trail; Spanish Colonial Period; Trade, commerce, and culture in colonial New Mexico; By William H. Wroth The Chihuahua Trail is the major land route from New Mexico through the state of Chihuahua to points in central Mexico. It is the northernmost portion of the Camino Real which in…
Although many people believe Vivian Vance to be a native of Albuquerque, Vivian Roberta Jones was actually born in Cherryvale, Kansas. The beloved character, Ethel Mertz, whom Vance played on the I Love Lucy television show, claimed Albuquerque as home and the association stuck. That and her (Vivian Vance’s)…
By Bruce M. Dietrich Carrizozo owes its stature as the county seat of Lincoln County to the failure of the neighboring community of White Oaks, a mining boomtown established in 1879, to secure a direct rail connection with the El Paso and Northeastern Railway system (EP&NE). Because of its…
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 Robert J. Torrez Spanish missions were churches established by Franciscan Friars in Indian villages called pueblos, the Spanish word for town. The purpose of these missions was to have a place in each pueblo where the Indians could be taught about Christianity. When New Mexico was settled by…
In 1840, the American explorer and trader Josiah Gregg encountered a startling scene in Tomé, New Mexico. In his journal, he related that: “…my attention was arrested by a man almost naked, bearing, in imitation of Simon, a huge cross upon his shoulder which, though constructed of the lightest…
