Images of Santa Fe’s people and timeless terrain captured on film help to tells its history. During the latter part of the 19th century some
There wouldn’t be a cowboy culture without the horse. More than 500 years ago the first voyage of horses from Spain arrived in America. The
Fort Marcy helped to support and protect traders along the Santa Fe Trail during the Mexican-American War. That year Brigadier-General Stephen Kearny travelled along the
In 1934 Arthur and Phoebe Pack were the owners of Ghost Ranch in northern New Mexico. The couple sold a parcel of land on the
Photography began in Europe in 1839. That’s when the concept of having a final image of a loved one began to take root. The most
For more than a century Loretto Academy was a part of the historical fabric of Santa Fe. The school began in1853 as part of an
Today, November 3rd, is the Catholic feast day of San Martín de Porres. The Black saint is the patron of hairdressers, public health workers, persons
“To the modern Mexican, death doesn’t have any meaning. …To the inhabitant of New York, Paris or London, death is a word that is never
When the New Mexico headquarters for the Public Employees Retirement Association opened in 1967 rumors began to circulate. Both office workers and the nightly cleaning
Geographically, New Mexico is the fifth largest state in the country after Alaska, Texas California, and Montana. Buried in the swathe of more than 121,000
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