SERIES: Pictorial History of the United States and Territories
SCENES: Cabeza de Vaca discovering "Fixed Habitations"; A Zuni of To-day Decorating Pottery; The Conquest of Cibola.
SIZE: 5" x 3"
DATE: 1892
LITHOGRAPHER: Donaldson Brothers, N.Y.
CONDITION: Fine, I'd say. This card is only lightly soiled, with slightly worn edges and corners. (Please see scans.)
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REVERSE TEXT: NEW MEXICO.
THE first white man in New Mexico was an officer of the ill-fated Florida expedition of Narvaez Cabeza de Vaca, who, with three companions crossed Texas and the Pueblo region in 1536, and reached Spanish Mexico. Bands of Franciscans founded missions among the savage tribes, and many won the crown of martyrdom. The civilized Pueblo race has for several centuries occupied the fertile valley of the northwestern part of the territory with their communal houses of stone and adobe. They were once a numerous people, with villages also in Arizona, Chihuahua, Colorado and Utah; but a series of droughts and pestilence and wars with the Apaches and Spaniards reduced them to a shadow of their former greatness. The Pueblos still occupy the oldest towns in America, and are a gentle, honest and industrious race of farmers. In 1847 Kearney's Army of the West marched 900 miles across the plains from Missouri, occupying this territory. New Mexico, west of the Rio Grande, belonged to the region ceded by Mexico to the United States in 1848, and the part east of the Rio Grande was ceded by Texas in 1850. The trade between Missouri and New Mexico, on the Santa Fé trail, began early in the century, and the freight was carried on by pack animals until 1824, when mule and ox-wagons, "prairie schooners," came into use. Up to 1831 the caravans started from Franklin (now Booneville), on the Missouri, and afterwards from Independence.
