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Show 4 PRED ps eT ‘te Le pete ok Be A ted ee oe ate ee 8 s er e-F i oe . 8 SAF 2h ¥ca a # -§- 3% i 5 Fak onal teehee eo gtate bi ede aT ¢ RR BAR ET Mbail ey elie , eek Soothe PRE De Ve ed oee~# ee ee 2 9. 0-8 88 - a4 at Psad 148 LEADING FACTS OF NEW MEXICAN HISTORY ‘‘Here, within the walls fortified as for a siege, the bravest Spaniards were massed in the revolution of 1680; here on the 19th of August of that year, was given the order to execute forty-seven Pueblo prisoners in the Plaza which faces the building; here but a few days later, was the sad war council held which determined on the evacuation of the city; here was the Scene of triumph of the Pueblo chieftains as they ordered the destruction of the Spanish archives and the church ornamen ts in one grand conflagration; here De Vargas gave thanks to the Virgin Mary, to whose aid he attributed his triumphant capture of the city; here, more than a century later, on March 3d, 1807, Lieutenant Pike was brought before Governor Alencaster as an invader of Spanish soil ; here, in 1822, the Mexican standard, with the eagle and the cactus, was raised in token that New Mexico was no longer a dependency of Spain; from here, on the 6th Perez started to subdue insurrection in the north, only to return two days later the and to meet his death on the ninth, near Agua Fria; here on the succeedday of August, 1837, Governor ing day, José Gonzales, a Pueblo Indian of Taos, was installed as governor of New Mexico, soon after to be executed by order of Armijo; here, in the principal reception room, in 1844, Governor Martinez killed the chief of the Utes by one blow with his chair; here on August 12, 1846, Captain Cooke, the American envoy, was received by Governor Armijo and sent back with a message of defiance; and it was here, six days later, General Kearny formally took possession of the city, and slept after his long and weary march on the carpeted earthen floor of the Palace. From every point of view, it 1s the most important historical building in the country, and its ultimate use should be as the home of the wonderfully varied collections of historical antiquaries which New Mexico will furnish.” ‘“‘Coming down to more modern times, it may be added that here General Lew Wallace wrote Ben Hur, and 1880.’’ ea overnor while governor, in 1879 Society of New Mexico, Bulletin No. 14. Prince, in his ie gp nha a Puce eet manded the Indian forces at the Suicide by hanging himse] time of the victory bes is old who structu aoi pee com: of De Vargas, committed e chat there may never be any doubt as to the truth of this statement, ; ; Inasmuc h as the room in which Ben Hur was written is now known on the Rito de los Frijoles room, and owing to the widespread interest an circumstances connected with it, the followi ng letter, written to the of th pier Mexico : cee 2 fh siege Historical Society, by General Wallace, is worthcurator Pp and “Mr. A. J. Wissler, ‘‘Crawfordsville, Indiana, May 6th, 1890. ‘* Dear Sir: Touchin 8 your inquiry whether Ben Hur was written in the Palace of Santa Fé, completed at the time beg to say it was finished there; that is, the Ms. a of my appointment to the governorship of New ig down to the sixth book of ¢ he volume, and I carried it with me. When in a Freigh ters Bernard on the Santa Seligman, Zadoe Fé16 Trai Trail, witith Staab, Lehman cj Seouts ae YcoOUe Klowa spies s |