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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 6 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Mexico, (search)
See Cabeza De Vaca (The journey through New Mexico); United States, New Mexico, in vol. IX. Governors [A list of the governors ruling in New Mexico previous to 1846, with notes, may be found in Historical sketches of New Mexico, by L. Bradford Prince. A list of names only, in The annual statistician and economist, L. P. McCarty, 1889, and elsewhere.] Military governors. Gen. Stephen W. Kearnyassumes office Aug. 22, 1846 Charles Bent appointed Sept. 22, 1846 Donaciano Vigilacting 853 David Meriwether appointed 1853 W. H. H. Davis acting 1857 Abraham Rencher appointed 1857 Henry Connelly1857 1861 W. F. M. Arny acting 1865 Robert B. Mitchell appointed 1866 William A. Pileappointed 1869 Marsh Giddings appointed 1871 William G. Ritch acting 1875 Samuel B. Axtell appointed 1875 Lewis Wallace appointed 1878 Lionel A. Sheldonappointed 1881 Edmund G. Ross appointed1885 L. Bradford Princeappointed 1889 William T. Thorntonappointed1893 Miguel A. Otero appointed1897
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Mexico, (search)
ool at Silver City established......Feb. 11, 1893 New Mexico Military Institute established at Roswell, N. M.......Feb. 23, 1893 Bulletin No. 36, United States Department of Agriculture, announces result of an exhaustive series of tests with sugar beets in which New Mexico is shown to lead the world, the average figures for the territory being: precentage of solids in the beets, 19.4; percentage of sugar, 15.34; ratio of purity, 83.2......April 10, 1893 W. T. Thornton succeeds L. Bradford Prince as governor......April 26, 1893 The Pecos Company organized in New Jersey with $5,000,000 to construct in southeastern New Mexico the largest irrigation enterprise in the United States......May 15, 1893 New Mexico School of Mines opens its first session......Sept. 5, 1893 Irrigation congress meets at Deming......November, 1893 Prehistoric ruins opened near Santa Cruz, from which is taken a large collection of ancient stone idols or household gods which were objects of worsh
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
h owning. The story of The Spanish conquest of New Mexico (1869) by W. W. H. Davis and El Gringo, or New Mexico and her people (1857) by the same author, who spent some years in the region, show that the Spaniards in entering and building up New Mexico had no thought of the Texans that were to be. Samuel Cozzens in The marvellous country or three years in Arizona and New Mexico (1873) gives more of the story, with modern additions, and Historical sketches of New Mexico (1883) by ex-Governor L. Bradford Prince, who still lives in Santa Fe, is another important volume on this subject. Although the Rio Grande settlements and the capital city of Santa Fe were so far from the outermost fringe of Texan life that the Texans actually knew little about them, these had fixed their minds on extending Texas to the Rio Grande, and to the Rio Grande it must go. Therefore they decided to march across the unknown and formally annex the old-time towns and villages, whose inhabitants were supposed t