Spanish MIssions of New Mexico Established By Robert J. Torrez Former New Mexico State Historian 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…
by Genaro Padilla Gaspar Perez de Villagra published Historia de la Nueva México the same year that William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale was performed at the Globe in London. Villagra’s poem was published in Alcala de Henares, Miguel de Cervantes birthplace, and, as it turns out, is chronologically tucked…
An Address Delivered to the New Mexico Association of Museums By Rick Hendricks, Ph.D. New Mexico State Historian I am going to speak today about some of the lessons learned from the launch of the New Mexico Digital History Project in 2005 until mid-2012 when we began a renewal…
Forgotten Lessons and Missing Links: Adolph Bandelier as a Pioneering Scientific Historian By Rick Hendricks, Ph.D. New Mexico State Historian Introduction Santa Fe, 26 March 1888 Had a very bad night. Suffered a great deal, could not sleep. Walking and lying down equally painful. A sitting posture is the…
ELEVENTH LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY, ———- Convened at Santa Fe on the last Monday in December, 1861 ———- COUNCIL. PRESIDENT. —Fecundo Pino, of Santa Fe County. CLERK.—Santiago Baca. SERGEANT-AT-ARMS.—Andres Salazar, MORA.—Tomas Lucero. TAOS.—Pascual Martinez, Antonio Jose Martinez. Rio ARRIBA.—Francisco Salazar, Francisco A. Mestcas. SANTA FE.—Fecundo Pino. SAN MIGUEL.—Prudencio Lopez, Antonio Bacay…
TENTH LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY, ———- Convened at Santa Fe on the first Monday of December, 1860. ———- COUNCIL. PRESIDENT.—Jose G. Gallegos, of San Miguel County CLERK.—Richard H. Tompkins. SERGEANT-AT-ARMS.—Jesus Ma. Bazan. MORA.—Felipe Romero. TAOS.—Sautiago Valdez, Antonio Jose Ortiz. Rio ARRIBA.—Antonio Ma. Pacheco, Pedro Batista Gallegos. SANTA FE.—Merrill Ashurst. SAN MIGUEL.—Jose…
Explicase el arbol de Consanguinidad en linea recta En este arbol se hallan tres lineas: La primera es la recta. La segunda es la transversal igual. La tercera es la transversal desigual. En la recta se ponen los ascendientes, y descendientes de Pedro (ó de otra qualquiera persona, cuyo…
2 26 1879 by Michael Ann Sullivan In December of 1917, Mabel Dodge closed her apartment in Greenwich Village, and took a long slow train ride to Lamy, New Mexico to meet her husband Maurice Sterne and her son Paul. Although she planned only a brief vacation, the 38-year-old…
Lea County Lea County was created in 1917 out of parts of Chaves and Eddy Counties. Lovington is the county seat.
Curry County Curry County was created in in 1909 out of parts of Quay and Roosevelt Counties. Clovis is the county seat.
