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By Chuck Hornung “A rather unusual institution within New Mexico is the mounted police, who numbered 11 in 1907, whose work was almost entirely in the cattle country, and who had authority to patrol the entire Territory and to make arrests or to preserve order wherever their presence…
7 19 1830 By Denise Holladay Damico Santiago de Jesus Valdez was born in Taos, New Mexico on July 19, 1830 and was baptized by water upon his birth "because of emergency" by the Padre's younger brother, Don Santiago Martinez. Padre Martinez concluded the baptism on July 22 of…
Sometime during the month of March 1632, Captain Don Francisco de la Mora y Ceballos arrived in Santa Fe from Mexico City, and became the eighth governor of New Mexico. Old Spanish documents recently brought to light and translated, show that in so far as the antagonism between state…
6 14 1870 By Mark B. Thompson Having served as the last Chief Justice of the territorial Supreme Court and the first federal judgeafter New Mexico achieved statehood, William H. Pope has a unique place in New Mexico history. Judge Pope may also be unique in that he twice,…
Bernardo López de Mendizábal By Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint Beginning as early as the 1540s, wars in Europe and the Mediterranean proved financially ruinous for the Spanish monarchy. Castile and the empire it controlled lurched from fiscal crisis to crisis throughout the end of the sixteenth…
Hon. Benjamin Franklin Pankey, state senator and ranchman, whose efforts along political as well as business lines have been an element in the progress, prosperity, and up building of the new State, was born in Harrisburg, Illinois, in 1861. He comes of French ancestry and his parents were William…
Mexican Independence Day Celebrations in New Mexico September 16th: 1821-1846 By Robert Torrez New Mexico was part of the Mexican Republic from 1821 to 1846. Historical documents in the Mexican Archives of New Mexico show that during this time nuevomexicanos celebrated the commemoration of Mexican independence from Spain, planning…
By William H. Wroth With the establishment of the Republic of Texas in 1836 Sam Houston was elected as its first president. As president, Houston unsuccessfully advocated the annexation of Texas to the United States. He also sought to avoid further conflicts with the Republic of Mexico, quelling some…
By William H. Wroth José Rafael Aragón (ca.1783-90 – 1862) was one of the most prolific and popular santeros in nineteenth-century New Mexico. Santeros are makers of images of saints, known in New Mexico as santos. The Spanish term santero has several meanings, the primary one being a person…
By Suzanne Stamatov The Japanese siege on the American forces in the Philippines transpired over a four-month period. Japan began aerial attacks on the Philippines on the same day it attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii (8 December in the Philippines as it is across the International Date Line). Ordered…
