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Olde New Mexico

(Hardcover - 1 Mar 2011)

 

Robert D. Morritt

 

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          This book affords the reader an in-depth history of New Mexico, from the earliest Paleographical era. It covers the early Pueblo societies, the Spanish incursions and development of the area. Also contained herein are accounts of the indigenous people and their history and fortitude during various incursions, at first by Spanish conquistadors, and later by early American 'Frontier' soldiers. Geographically in earlier times there there are areas that overlap because there were no ‘State lines’. Spanish territory became divided up much later into the territories of Arizona, Texas, New Mexico and parts of south eastern California.

 

          The book concludes within the pre-Statehood  territorial period . It is hoped that this portrayal will  go beyond the material found within  modern  travel guidebooks and give the present day reader a chance to travel  back in time to  eyewitness  this fascinating and volatile period.

 

          Our travel takes us to Clovis in the prehistoric era and later we see the rise of indigenous settlements peoples including the Pueblo peoples. The incursion of the Spanish under Coronado and  Tais and Pope’s rebellion , also of  Juan de Oñate, Fray Marcos of Nizam Quivera and Gaspar Perez de Villagra.

 

          Prior to statehood are descriptions of early frontiersmen and of the Apache wars and of the Zuni Pueblo people.

 

          The territorial era and early traders give us a feel for what frontier life must have been the Mexican-American War and the Forts that guarded and often violent West.

 

          The book concludes within the age of the gunfighters, Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett and Fred Lambert. In all a concise overview for those who wish to look a little deeper than the travel guides of New Mexico and for those who enjoy American history.