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Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America

Cabeza de Vaca's Journey to the Southwest - de Vaca's Own Account

Searches for the "Seven Cities of Cibola" - The Account by Reuben Gold Thwaites

The Expedition of Coronado to the Southwest - Coronado's Own Account

Story of Estevanico

Coronado's Exploration

Cuarto Centenario - From the Museum of New Mexico:Historia de la Nueva Mexico- The Cuartocentario of Juan de Oñate

Cuarto Centennial History Series from the Albuquerque Journal

Cuartocentennial of Colonization of New Mexico from NM State University

The Walls of Acoma

Camino al Norte - The Road North, Juan de Oñate's Journey of 1598

El Camino Real - The Royal Road into New Mexico

El Camino Real del Tierra Adentro

El Camino Real - The Trail of Ideas (with photos)

El Morro: Dramatic Link to State's Colorful Past

Jornada del Muerto - 90 miles of hell

The Pueblo Revolt of 1680

Places in the West, New Mexico.



People in THE WEST from New Mexico:
  • Cabeza de Vaca the Spaniard who was lost and wondering through out North America for 8 years
  • Francisco Vásquez de Coronado the Spanish explorer who lead the first large scale expedition into the American Southwest
  • Popé a Pueblo religious leader who helped plan the Pueblo Revolt of 1680
  • William Bent famous trapper, trader and later first Anglo-American governor of New Mexico, 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.


Don Juan de Oñate

An Uncertain Founding: Santa FE

Palace of the Governors



El Rancho de Las Golondrinas,
A Spanish Colonial Living History Museum

Photos from El Rancho de Las Golondrinas

Three Years among the Indians and Mexicans - Adventures as one of the first American traders in Santa Fe

Southwest Frontier And The Fur Trade.

A campaign in New México with Colonel Doniphan

Invasión Yanqui: The Mexican War

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

The Gadsden Purchase of 1854

History of the Loretto Chapel

About Billy The Kid

The Death of Pat Garrett

The Outlaw & A Politician - Outlaws stories from Las Vegas, N.M.

Bob Orlinger - New Mexico's killer deputy

Elfego Baca Lived More Than Nine Lives

Mountain men of the New Mexico

The Palace Print Shop - NM Printing History

New Mexico Jewish Pioneers

The Buffalo Solders.

Who are the Buffalo Soldiers?

Navajo Long Walk

Geronimo's surrender - Skeleton Canyon, 1886

A History of Fort Union.

Photos of Fort Union

Photos & Information about Fort Craig

The History of Fort Selden, NM.

Images of the American West - New Mexico photos from the 1800s.

Photos from New Mexico Wanderings

The Civil War in New Mexico Civil War Photos & more Civil War in New Mexico

The Civil War Archive, Union Regimental Index for New México

Wheels Museum - The former Santa Fe Railway Shops, located in downtown Albuquerque, NM

Santa Fe Railway - A Collection Railroad Photos in Albuquerque

Fred Harvey in New México




Photos of NM from 1880-1920

History of New Mexico's State Capital Buildings

Santa Fe & Taos Art Communities

This History of Zozobra & More Zozobra can be found at The Burning of Zozobra



How theSanta Fe Art Colony began

New Mexico Home Page WPA Life Histories. windows to our past

WPA Guide to NM: Route 66 Tour from The WPA Guide to 1930s New Mexico

Origins of the Navajo Codetalkers and Code Talkers Exhibit from the NSA.

New Mexico Ghosts Towns & Ghost Towns of New Mexico

A History of Kirkland Air force Base

Roswell Museum

History of the Los Alamos National Laboratory

Leopold legacies - preserving the Gila Wilderness


Taos County Historical Society

Find-A-Grave: New Mexico

Santa Fe History from Santa Fe On line



Drought Reigns in N.M. History

Hispano Music & Culture from the Northern Rio Grande

History & Nostalgia from Southern New Mexico On line

NM Historical Review

NM Jewish History Society

Historical Maps of New Mexico

New Mexico New Mexico Genealogist offers a variety of articles on NM Historical topics.

Brief History of New Mexico from New Mexico Magazine On line

NM State Records Center and Archives

History of Rio Arriba & the Truchas Area







Photos are taken from old Postcards

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