By Rick Hendricks Personal Information Vicente Antonio Archuleta, son of Cristóbal and Francisca Ortega, native of Socorro, dependent of this jurisdiction of El Paso, laborer by profession, widower, thirty, height 5 feet 1 inch, Roman Catholic, brown hair, ruddy complexion, brown eyes, normal lips with a scar on…
By Thomas Shumaker, PhD By 1914, when war began in Europe, New Mexico had only been a state for just two years. Despite the relative freshness of its entry into the Union, it was nevertheless open to the wider world, as it always had been. Chinese immigrants had come to…
Transcription by Rick Hendricks Socorro (in the El Paso del Norte Area) 1806 list of citizens and Indians between the ages of 16 and 60 capable of bearing arms Citizens Juan Nepomuceno Núñez, lt. de justicia Lázaro Archuleta Juan Estrada Simón Guerra Francisco López Anselmo Frésquez Manuel…
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…
In the last half of the seventeenth century, (c. 1664‑1680) Juan de Archuleta led a small military expedition northeast from New Mexico to bring back some Taos Indians who had fled to a spot in eastern Colorado afterwards known as El Cuartelejo—what seems to have been the first recorded…
Kearny letter from Juan Bautista Vigil y Alarid, 1846, General: The address which you have just delivered, in which you announce that you have taken possession of this great country in the name of the United States of America, gives us some idea of the wonderful future that awaits…
Kearny Address United States Army Colonel Stephen Watts Kearny in Las Vegas, makes his first address to the Alcalde and the people of New Mexico on August 15, 1846. This is the first official statement of the United States in the invasion of the Southwest. “Mr. Alcalde, and people…
Arms, Indians, and the Mismanagement of New Mexico: Donaciano Vigil By David J. Weber Donaciano Vigil was born in Santa Fe on September 6, 1802. He received an unusually good education for a frontiersman–his father, Juan Cristóbal Vigil, reportedly educated his sons at home. As one merchant later recalled,…
by Matthew A. Sterner Fort McRae served an important function as a frontier military outpost during the period of Indian unrest in the New Mexico Territory. From its inception in 1863, Fort McRae served as an important outpost in quelling unrest in the region. Placed along a strategic corridor…
Articles of a treaty made and entered into at Santa Fe, New Mexico, on the first day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, by and between Col. E. V. Sumner, U.S.A., commanding the 9th Department and in charge of the executive…
