Tag: Taos
Fur Traders and Notaries, 1500s to 1800s Before Columbus landed in 1492, there were North American fur traders among the Native American tribes. As Europeans arrived in the New …
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, …
Ulibarri Claims Colorado for Spain, 1706 A hundred years before Ulibarri, in 1598, Spanish Conquistador Juan de Onate founded a capital at an Indian Pueblo at San Gabriel, north …
Bent’s Fort, Colorado 1842 One of the early acts performed by a notary in the days before Colorado Territory was formed in 1861, was a marriage in 1842 at …