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    Santa Fe
    Santa Fe
    Santa Fe
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    Santa Fe

    By Buddy Mays

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    Located in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Santa Fe was founded in 1608 by Spanish colonists and Franciscan missionaries who were searching for gold, arable land, and Indians to convert to Christianity. In the 400 years since, this mountain community has been the hub of Spanish colonialism in the New World, the terminus of the historic Santa Fe Trail, and since 1912, the state capital of New Mexico. It is America's third-oldest continuously inhabited, European-built community, surpassed in age only by St. Augustine, Florida, and Jamestown, Virginia. It is also the birthplace of Santa Fe style, a term used to describe the unique amalgamation of Indian, Spanish, and Anglo cultures that has strongly influenced the world of architecture and fashion since the 1960s and made the city one of America's most popular and recognizable tourist destinations.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcadia Publishing
    Release dateMar 2, 2015
    ISBN9781439650141
    Santa Fe
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    Buddy Mays

    An award-winning photographer and writer, Buddy Mays is the author of eight previous books. A native of Santa Fe, New Mexico, he now lives in Bend, Oregon.

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      Santa Fe - Buddy Mays

      1979

      INTRODUCTION

      Nestled in the piñon-covered western foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, the settlement of Santa Fe was established in 1608 by Spanish soldier Juan Martinez de Montoya. The city is one of the oldest, continuously inhabited communities built by Europeans in the United States—surpassed in age by only St. Augustine, Florida, and Jamestown, Virginia. It is the site of the oldest public building in America, the Palace of the Governors, and the oldest church, the San Miguel Mission, both constructed about 1610. It is also home to the nation’s longest-running communal celebration, the Fiesta de Santa Fe, first held in 1712. The city is a world-class art and music center, providing visitors and residents with an all-season menu of activities. It is little wonder that historic Santa Fe is also New Mexico’s most popular tourist destination, attracting more than one million visitors each year.

      In the early 1600s, Santa Fe was a small, isolated community of soldiers, farmers, and Franciscan missionaries—the latter dedicated to converting thousands of Pueblo Indians to Christianity. Surrounding a main square or plaza, the central part of the settlement was walled and fortified against potential attack from any of two dozen nearby Indian pueblos. The colonists made two fundamental errors during Santa Fe’s formative years, both concerning their Indian neighbors. First, they introduced the encomienda, a system of taxation that gave government and church officials the right to extract an annual tribute—mostly in the form of food, human labor, or personal service—from each Indian household. Second, the Franciscan friars prohibited Pueblo residents from practicing their centuries-old religious ceremonies and, using forced Indian labor, erected large mission churches in almost every native community.

      Most Puebloans hated both the encomienda and the Franciscan missionaries. Pueblo men and boys were forced to labor long hours in their fields to pay the tribute, while Indian women and girls working in Spanish households were often sexually abused by their masters. By 1680, the Pueblo people had endured enough. Late that summer, 2,000 angry warriors pillaged and burned much of Santa Fe, slaughtering settlers and missionaries as they went. Other war parties attacked churches, farms, and outlying communities throughout New Mexico. A combined 400 colonists and 21 Franciscan friars were slain during the first few hours of this Pueblo Revolt, and at least 2,000 others were sent scurrying south toward Mexico. The success of the uprising was short-lived, however. In 1693, just 13 years later, Spanish conquistador Don Diego de Vargas led an army of 800 soldiers, settlers, and friendly Indians back to Santa Fe and ordered the occupying Indians to surrender. They refused, and in the bloody battle that followed, the heavily armed Spaniards killed 79 warriors and sentenced every family member of the slain Indians to 10 years in slavery.

      Once again under Spanish control, Santa Fe grew slowly but steadily over the next century as more colonists arrived each year from Mexico City. In 1821, Mexico won its independence from Spain, and Santa Fe’s ownership and political jurisdiction reverted to the Mexicans. That same year, American William Becknell led a string of pack mules loaded with trade goods into the Santa Fe Plaza, having journeyed all the way from Missouri on a new trade route he called the Santa Fe Trail. Becknnell’s arrival nudged Santa Fe out of the dark ages. Within a few years, a steady stream of wagons bearing American and European merchandise was pouring into the city, where amenity-starved residents eagerly purchased it for exorbitant prices. In 1845, the United States declared war on Mexico after 16 Americans were slain by a Mexican cavalry unit on the US side of the border. Pres. James Polk immediately ordered a large force of American soldiers to occupy Santa Fe and lay claim to the New Mexico Territory. The campaign was swift and bloodless; commanding general Stephen Kearney took the city without firing a shot and established a joint civil and military government to run the territory. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed two years later, ending the war and officially surrendering Santa Fe and New Mexico to the United States.

      In 1880, the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway (AT&SF) reached the village of Lamy, 18 miles south of Santa Fe. Surveyors deemed the terrain

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