Death in New Mexico
New Mexico’s Angels
It wasn’t until the early 1830s that the concept of having a final image of a loved one began to take root. The most common
January 17, 2023
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It wasn’t until the early 1830s that the concept of having a final image of a loved one began to take root. The most common
Many tales along the Santa Fe Trail have captivated the imagination including the saga of Manuel Salustiano Delgado. In the 1830s Manuel Salustiano Delgado, an
New Mexico has the most diverse and largest number of volcanoes in North America. From the crest of La Bajada Hill you can see the
A deluge of settlers descended from the east when New Mexico became a U.S. territory in 1850. By the end of the century the culture
At the beginning of World War I, a group of Lutheran pacifists found their way to Santa Fe. Their objection to that war followed a
Tuberculosis became the leading cause of death in this country from the 1880s until the advent of penicillin in the 1940s. The dreaded disease brought
The most significant historical event in New Mexico was the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. That’s when the pueblos successfully drove all of the Spanish colonists
During the Christmas holidays in Santa Fe the blending of Moorish and Native American culture abounds. The traditional winter pageants, Los Matachines and Los Moros
The archeologist Edgar Lee Hewett was born on this day on November 23, 1865. Hewett is the most historically significant man of the twentieth century in
On December 7, 1941, the psyche of Americans received a jolt with the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. By March 1942 Japanese-American prisoners began to
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