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…
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…
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…
Jemez Pueblo Walatowa or Giusewa, "Place at the Boiling Waters," is the traditional name for Jemez Pueblo. Jemez Pueblo is the only remaining Towa speaking pueblo. In efforts to prevent exploitation, the tribe’s traditional law makes it illegal to make Towa written a written language, thus it…
Alamogordo Soon thereafter Eddy bought the spring from rancher Oliver M. Lee to furnish water for the RR town he and his brother, John Arthur Eddy, were planning nearby. The townsite itself was purchased and laid out in 1898. In 1923, on the 25th anniversary of the town's founding,…
Watrous, Santa Fe Trail, Santa Fe Railway, Shipping Point By Shirley Cushing Flint and Richard Flint Traveling north on Interstate 25 from Las Vegas, New Mexico it is easy to see that here the Great Plains dramatically meet the Rocky Mountains. To the east are endless, flat expanses, described…
