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Yesterday in Santa Fe: Episodes in a Turbulent History (1969). Santa Fe: History of an Ancient City (1989). Commerce of the Prairies, edited by Max L.
The Santa Fe Trail: Its History, Legends, and Lore. In 2005 the estimated population was 70,631, making Santa Fe the third-largest city in New Mexico.
Today Santa Fe draws large numbers of tourists for its climate, culture, and history. Territory in 1850 and when statehood was achieved in 1912. Santa Fe remained the capital when New Mexico became a U.S. Kearny marched into the town without bloodshed and established U.S. In the New Mexico Revolution of 1837, the rebels from the northern communities held Santa Fe for a short time until the capital was retaken by former and future governor Manuel Armijo. The duties collected from the traders supplemented the town's meager income. Calicos and gingham fabrics were found in most houses American styles and furniture became commonplace on the streets and in homes. The opening of the Santa Fe Trail that tied New Mexico to the United States affected the frontier community immediately. In 1821 William Becknell brought a small trade caravan from Missouri to Santa Fe and found a ready market for his goods. New Mexico's role in the fight for independence from Spain was small of more importance to the isolated community was the end of the Spaniards' monopoly on trade. Other than the occasional trade caravan that came up the Royal Road from Chihuahua with luxury items, New Mexico and its capital lived in isolation and became nearly self-sufficient. Santa Fe was an agricultural community of 2,542 people in 1790. It hardly resembled other fortified presidios nor did it have the strict gridlike pattern of most other Hispanic cities. Although a presidio town that lived under the constant threat of attack from Navajo and Ute Indians, Santa Fe was not walled and its settlement pattern was notably decentralized. Santa Fe developed into a unique Hispanic frontier community in the eighteenth century. This was the last major battle in Santa Fe history, and by 1697 Vargas had subdued the last of the rebellious pueblos and completed the reconquest of New Mexico. In the Battle of Santa Fe (29 December 1693), he retook the capital with the help of Pecos Pueblo auxiliaries who had grown disillusioned with pueblo rule. 1704) led a recolonizing force into New Mexico. Thirteen years later, Diego de Vargas ( d. In August the pueblos, briefly united in their hatred of the injustices of the colonial system, laid siege to the capital and forced the Spaniards to flee, first to Isleta, some 70 miles to the south, and then to El Paso. Santa Fe played a crucial role in the Pueblo Rebellion of 1680. To the southwest were the river communities and the Camino Real (Royal Road) that tied New Mexico to the rest of New Spain and the world beyond. The villa stood close to the banks of the upper Rio Grande at the southernmost tip of the Sangre de Cristo mountains to the east were the plains to the west, the pueblos. Santa Fe, capital of New Mexico founded about 1609 by governor Pedro de Peralta ( ca.
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