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Lipan Apaches: Some Untold Stories

By Sherry Robinson   Lipan Apaches are some of the most misrepresented and Indian people in western American history. Prominent historians have repeatedly underestimated them, exterminated them, and pushed them off the map. In fact, they survived against great odds, as the historic record shows abundantly. Lipans were the…

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…

Donna de Mala Vita

By David Snow As the result of an unidentified illness, María de Jesús Trujillo, 43 years old, died at her home in Albuquerque's Los Poblanos in mid June of 1855 (AASF, 1854-59, roll 34, frame 33).  The inventory of her estate was filed October 10 by administrator José Manuel…