Tag: Rio Grande
Fort Massachusetts, Fort Garland, John M. Francisco, 1852 In April 1852, two companies of First Dragoons from Fort Union (east of Santa Fe) and one company of Third Infantry, …
Coronado Expedition, Muster Roll, 1540 Spanish law required official records to be kept by conquistadors, including the Francisco Vazquez (Vasquez) de Coronado Expedition of the American Southwest in 1540. …
First Thanksgiving, El Paso, Texas, 1598 One settler wrote about their Thanksgiving festival: On 30 April 1598, day of the Ascension of our Lord, at this Rio del Norte, …
Notary with Conquistador Oñate, New Mexico 1598 On April 30, 1598, near present-day El Paso, Texas, Conquistador Juan de Oñate claimed all the land north of the Rio Grande …