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New Mexico History Links
Before there were Europeans in New Mexico, New Mexico's Indigenous People had many cultures. Here are my Links for Indigenous People of New Mexico.
New Mexico Geography and Geology
Cabeza de Vaca the Spaniard who was lost and wondering through out North America for 8 years.
Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America
Cabeza de Vaca's Journey to the Southwest - de Vaca's Own Account
Story of Estevanico
Movie about Cabeza de Vaca
“Invasions—Then and Now” Fray Marcos de Niza’s route into New Mexico and his account of an early encounter at Zuni.
The Expedition of Coronado to the Southwest - Coronado's Own Account
Coronado's Report to the King of Spain, Sent from Tiguex on October 20, 1541
The Journey of Coronado, An account of the expedition to Cibola which took place in the year 1540, in which all those settlements, their ceremonies & customs, are described. Written by Pedro de Castaneda, of Najara
Tiguex War between the Tiguex People of Hawikuh Pueblo and Coronado's Spanish Expedition from Wikipedia
Tiguex Pueblos of the Río Abajo and the Tiguex War from the Office of the State Historian of New Mexico
Resources for Spanish Explorationof North American from American Beginnings
Coronado's Exploration
Francisco Vásquez de Coronado the Spanish explorer who lead the first large scale expedition into the American Southwest.Gaspar Castaño de Sosa and His Expedition of 1590
Gaspar Castaño de Sosa from Wikipedia
Colonial New Mexico An essay from the City of Albuquerque
Colonization A Hopelessly Flawed Beginning, 1598 - Chapter One from Donald L. Lucero's book, The Adobe Kingdom
“Juan de Oñate & His Expedition of 1598-1604”
Don Juan de Oñate and the First Thanksgiving
Colonization of New Mexico in the 16th Century
Oñate, Letter from New Mexico from American Journeys - Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement
More first person documents concerning New Mexico from Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement:
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Palace of the Governors
Don Juan de Oñate
New Mexico's first Capital, San Gabriel de Yunque-Ouinge - San Juan Pueblo, New Mexico
An Uncertain Founding: Santa Fé
Origins of Santa Fé by Marc Simmons
The First Settlers of the Villa de Santa Fé ~ 1608 - 1610
Colonists in New Mexico between 1598 and 1680
History: El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro - The Royal Road into New Mexico
El Camino Real del Tierra Adentro from the World Heritage Site El Camino Real Historic Trail Site
Jornada del Muerto - 90 miles of hell
The Last Hurdle: El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro
Conversos & Crypto-Jews in New Mexico
Crypto-Jews in Spanish New Mexico
“Crypto-Jews and the Spanish Inquisition in the New World”
The Inquisition and the Crypto-Jewish Community in Colonial New Spain and New Mexico by Staney M. Hordes
The only woman in New Mexico arrested by the Inquisition on the account of secretly being Jewish... Learn the fascinating story of Doña Teresa Aguilera y Roche, the wife of Santa Fe's colonial governor Don Bernardo López de Mendizábal. While imprisoned in Mexico City she asks for a pen and paper and writes her defense laying bare what life was like in the Palace of the Governors at that time.
Antonío de Otermín, the last Governor during the Mission Period
"Pueblo Revolt- Rising Up Against the Spaniards," From Native American Legends
The Pueblo Revolt of 1680
The Pueblo Revolt of 1680
Pueblo Runners and the Pueblo Revolt-1680
Antonío De Otermín, Governor of New Mexico, at the Time of the Pueblo Revolt
Popé a Pueblo religious leader who helped plan the Pueblo Revolt of 1680.
The Pueblo Revolt of 1680
An Indian View of Popé
“As They Had Been in Ancient Times”: Pedro Naranjo Relates the Pueblo Revolt, 1680
Pueblo revolt leaders and their home Pueblos:
- Ku-htihth (Cochiti): Antonio Malacate
- Galisteo (Galisteo): Juan El Tano
- Walatowa (Jemez): Luis Conixu
- Nambé (Nambé): Diego Xenome
- Welai (Picuris): Luis Tupatu (Ciervo Blanco)
- Powhogeh (San Ildefonso): Francisco El Ollito and Nicolas de la Cruz Jonv
- Ohkay (San Juan): Po'pay and Tagu
- San Lazaro: Antonio Bolsas and Cristobal Yope
- Khapo (Santa Clara): Domingo Naranjo and Cajete
- Kewa (Santo Domingo): Alonzo Catiti
- Teotho (Taos): El Saca
- Tehsugeh (Tesuque): Domingo Romero [Sando, Joe S. and Herman Agoyo, editors, Po'pay: Leader of the First American Revolution, Clear Light Publishing, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2005 p. 110]
The Pueblo Revolt from Wikipedia
Revolt of the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico and Otermín's Attempted Reconquest, 1680-1682 from American Journey's first person accounts of History.
Exile: 1680 - 1693 Regrouping - Chapter Five from Donald L. Lucero's book, The Adobe Kingdom
Reconquest of New Mexico-1692
Observations on Pueblo-Spanish Relations in the Vargas Era
Surviving Columbus: First Encounters
History of New Mexico Pueblos 1598 - 1990s
History of New Mexico Pueblos 1598 - 1990s
Diego de VargasSpanish Colonial New Mexico
A Forgotten Kingdom: The Spanish Frontier in Colorado and New Mexico, 1540-1821
Kiva, Cross, and Crown Full text covering the Mission & Spanish Colonial Periods of New Mexico History
"Tales of The Comancheros" by Marc Simmons
The Taos Trade Fairs
Tomás Vélez Cachupín, governor of New Mexico who paved the way for peace with the nomadic Indians of New Mexico
Juan Bautista de Anza & Cuerno VerdeBiographies of the Governors of Spanish Colonial New Mexico
Hispano Music and Culture of the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection
The Penitente Brotherhood - Los Hermanos Penitente
Penitente Brotherhood
The Pueblo League, the Plains Indians and the Genízaro - Chapter Eight from Donald L. Lucero's book, The Adobe Kingdom
The Abiquiú Genízaro Grant
Places in the West, New Mexico.
El Rancho de Las Golondrinas, A Spanish Colonial Living History Museum
The Segesser Hides - The story of Spanish Expeditions onto the Plains in the 1700s
Various articles from the New Mexico Hispanic Culture Preservation League
The Founding of Alburquerque
TheFirst Settlers of the Villa de Alburquerque ~ 1706
Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco, Map maker and Santero
Spanish Colonial Architecture from the New Mexico Museum of Art
Sanctuaries of Spanish New Mexico, Essay on the Churches of Colonial New Mexico
New Mexico Colonial Home– Circa 1815
From the Collector's Guide:
- 500 Years of Encounters — 1492–1992, A glimpse at events that have shaped New Mexican Hispanic arts and crafts.
- Glossary of Hispanic Folk Art Terms
- Santos of New Mexico, A four-hundred year tradition
- Traditional New MexicanHispanic Crafts
- New Mexico Furniture Through Time
- Straw Art in New Mexico
- 400 Years of Romancing, the Vine Albuquerque is central to the oldest wine-making region in the US
Villa De Albuquerque
An Account of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi, and through the Western Parts of Louisiana, to the Sources of the Arkansas, Kansas, La Platte, and Pierre Juan, Rivers by Zebulon Pike, 1779 - 1813 - Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement
Early History of Blacks in Alburquerque and Black Heritage in New Mexico
Taos Pueblo
Three Years among the Indians and Mexicans - Adventures as one of the first American traders in Santa Fe
Santa Fe National Historic Trail
Pioneer Women on the Santa Fe Trail
“The OldSpanish Trail”
Mountain Men and the Fur Trade in TaosMountain Men of the Gila
A Glossary of American Mountain Men Terms, Words & Expressions
William Bent a famous trapper, trader and businessman in New Mexico during the Mexican Period.
Bent, St. Vrain and Company
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
Kit Carson Famous mountain man and soldier in New Mexico.
Charles Goodnight one of the cattlemen who founded the Goodnight-Loving Cattle Trail in New Mexico.
Manuel Armijo
The Threads of Memory: Spain and the United States examines Spanish heritage in North America Articles by New Mexico Historian, Marc Simmons
Revolt of 1847 Treason Trials
The people that were executed by hanging in Taos, NM as a result of the 1847 Revolt
Occupation and Rebellion: 1845 - 1847 - Chapter Thirteen from Donald L. Lucero's book, The Adobe Kingdom
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo from the New Mexico History MuseumThe Gadsden Purchase of 1854
The Real Billy the Kid
About Billy The Kid
The Outlaw & A Politician - Outlaws stories from Las Vegas, N.M.
Bob Olinger New Mexico's killer deputy
Elfego Baca and the Taming SocorroElfego Baca and the Cowboys
The Palace Print Shop - NM Printing History
Gettysburg of the West - The Battle at Glorieta Pass
Civil War & Buffalo Soldiers
Cathay Williams, Female Buffalo Soldier
Served 1866-1868The Buffalo Soldiers in New Mexico
Navajo Long Walk
Fort Sumner Historic Site/Bosque Redondo Memorial
Geronimo's surrender - Skeleton Canyon - 1886
A History of Fort Union.
Photos of Fort Union
Information about Fort Craig
The Old West In New Mexico - A colorful history lesson
about frontier New Mexico's unofficial town hall -- the saloon.
New Mexico photos from the 1800s.
New Mexico Art Tells New Mexico History
The Battle of Glorieta Pass, the Civil War in New Mexico
TheCivil War in New Mexico from New Mexico Legends
The Civil War in New Mexico
Vaqueros, New Mexico Cowboys
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George McJunkin: A Chapter in New Mexico History
The Search for the First Americans
New Mexico's Shifting Boundaries
Tom "Black Jack" Ketchum Black Jack Ketchum from Folsom, New Mexico
The Comanche - Horsemen of the Plains
Wheels Museum - The former Santa Fe Railway Shops, located in downtown Albuquerque, NMA brief history of Silver City
A Harvey House Home page - Hotels, Lunchrooms, Restaurants in New Mexico
Fred Harvey: Civilizer of the West
New Mexico Legends
New Mexico Historical Markers, photos and description of Historical Markers throughout New Mexico
Map of the New Mexico Territory
Roosevelt's Rough Riders-1898
Rough Riders
Adolph F. Bandelier from the New Mexican State Historian
New Mexico's Statehood: 100 Years of Enchantment
The Long Journey to Statehood
Santa Fe & Taos
Art Communities History of Zozobra & More on Zozobra can be found at The Burning of ZozobraTaos as an Art Colony: From the Taos Society of Artists to the Present
Founding the Santa Fe Art Colony - How Santa Fe Went from a Sleepy Western Town to a Fine Art Destination in a Single Generation
How the Santa Fe Art Colony began.
Mabel Dodge Lujan Canyon Road
Georgia O'Keeffe in New Mexico
Georgia O'Keeffe and New Mexico: A Sense of Place
Georgia O’Keeffe from the New Mexico State Historian
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New Mexico culture
Music of New Mexico
From the New Mexico State Historian about New Mexican Culture:
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 La Bajada on the road between Santa Fe & Albuquerque - 1920s |  Montezuma north of Las Vegas |
The Plazas of New Mexico
“Settlement and Homesteading in East-Central New Mexico”
New Mexico Home Page WPA Life Histories
The New Deal In New Mexico
Civilian Conservation Corps in New Mexico
WPA Guide to NM: Route 66 Tour from The WPA Guide to 1930s New Mexico
Ghost Towns of New Mexico
Brief History of the 200th & 555th - The New Mexico Brigade that took part in the Battle of Bataan in the Philippines
Bataan Death March-1942
Cabanatuan Prisoner of War Camp-1942
The Official Website of the Navajo Code Talkers
Navajo Code Talker Facts, and Navajo Code Talker Dictionary
Navajo Code Talkers History
Japanese-American Internment Camps in New Mexico
Remembering the Santa Fe Japanese Internment Camp
Prison Camps in New Mexico at:
- Fort Stanton
- Lordsburg
- Carlsbad
- Albuquerque housed both Italian & German POWs
- Las Cruces - German Prisoners
- Roswell- Mostly German POW taken in North Africa
- Portales - Italian POWs
- Deming
- Santa Fe
- Fort Sumner
Trinity Atomic Test July 16, 1945
Leopold legacies - preserving the Gila Wilderness
“Reies López Tijerina and the Tierra Amarilla Courthouse Raid”
Roswell Museum
Find-A-Grave: New Mexico
Santa Fe History from Santa Fe On line
Local History Articles - Socorro County History: El Camino Real - Ghost Towns - Lost Adam's Diggings - Mission Churches - La Llorona - more
Albuquerque - 2nd St. & Gold Ave.
The New Mexico Office of the State Historian
History & Nostalgia from Southern New Mexico On line
NM Historical Review
NM Jewish History Society
Historical Maps of New Mexico
New Mexico Legends, the Land of Enchantment has various essays about topics of New Mexican History
Online Exhibitions from the New Mexico History Museum
New Mexico Genealogist offers a variety of articles on New Mexico Historical topics
NM State Records Center and Archives
History of Rio Arriba & the Truchas Area
A Concise History of New Mexico published in 1912
The New Mexico Portal from Wikipedia
Teaching with Primary Sources New Mexico
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