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A History of the Old Spanish Trail Brainpower & Brownbags lecture series
date_range | January 19, 2011 |
location_on |
113 Lincoln Avenue
Santa Fe, NM 87501 United States |
schedule | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm |
Pat Kuhlhoff shares her expertise on the legendary Old Spanish Trail, which linked Mexico to Santa Fe to California, in a Brainpower & Brownbags lecture on Wednesday, Jan. 19, at noon, in the John Gaw Meem Room, 105 Washington Ave. (Enter via the museum's Washington entrance.) This Brainpower & Brownbags lecture is free and open to the public.
Kuhlhoff is a docent of the New Mexico History Museum who helps lead the historical walking tours offered spring through fall in downtown Santa Fe.
Prior to 1829, the journey between the two provinces of Mexico was so treacherous that only a handful of the hardiest dared try it. In 1829, Santa Fe merchant Antonio Armijo led 60 men and 100 mules on the few known trails blazed by mountain men and a route recorded 50 years earlier by Frays Dominguez and Escalante, opening a new era of trade for New Mexico colonists.
From the web site of the Old Spanish Trail Association (http://www.oldspanishtrail.org/trail_history.php):
News of the opening of trade with California resulted in immediate commerce between Santa Fe and Los Angeles. With a few exceptions, pack trains made annual treks between New Mexico and California, bringing woven Mexican products to California, which lacked sheep, and bartering them for horses and mules, scarce in New Mexico. Emigrants from New Mexico began to take the Spanish Trail to California in the late 1830s, and outlaws used the trail to raid the California ranchos. Raids for Indian slaves became common, with victims sold at either end of the trail despite official condemnation of the practice. The traffic in human beings reverberated among the peoples who lived along the trail for many years longer than the caravans plied their trade.
DETAILS
January 19, 2011
Time:
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Cost:
No cost
Location:
113 Lincoln Avenue , Santa Fe, NM 87501 United States
CONTACT
Organizer:
Marlon Magdalena