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Show FY MPS Yoa eae cea teRPS betTecaee BSee tae a oe POCA eeePP ee ROA SA SSSeas et St or ae ee to eC he) aoe PCAC ERE tre tL PPaee Fe } ah ted One? lalgetet etch ey,lePnte eee ya eon . a ar 3 * 2*%36 a bd « . My Vial et ett elefete le tee ete. fa 5 Te = et ts ar earan at t ss PREFATORY NOTE THE documentary period of New Mexican history begins with the Relacion of Alvar Nufiez Cabeza de Vaca, who, with three companions, survivors of the ill-fated expedition under Don Pamfilo Narvaez, in 1528, shipwrecked upon the coast of the Mexican Gulf, traversed Raa ae e249! Pre aPoae a ys] the continent, finally, in 1538, meeting with other Span- ah iards in New Galicia near the west coast of Mexico. Thereafter came the memorable journeys of the Francisean frayles, Juan dela Asuncion and Marcos de Niza, the negro, Estevan, who lost his life at Zufii, the expedition under Francisco Vasquez Coronado; Friar Agustin Ruiz, with Chamuscado; Don Antonio de Espejo; Castafio de Sosa; and finally, in 1598, the first colonizer in the United States of today, Don Juan de Ofiate, who located his first capital at San Gabriel, near the Junction of the Rio Chama with the Rio Grande, in the county a eel . peeled tage dah tod aaa See —* elee Del el es be ad J * be of Rio Arriba, New Mexico. The Spanish archives of New Mexico, however, do not contain any record of the events of the explorations of the last half of the sixteenth century, nor are there any connected with the first settlement under Ofnate. The earliest is one of the year 1621, a translation of which is given together with a photographic reproduction. * ee ee a C ee oe Mt ce ele ital ne ae OM et *-* eee « - af 7. a Ca a Ca ea ed ae ahd * eee Co ee ae ee Pa i ed . (xe Cee ee Ad a hd CF eg i en a Pd =f Ak ee or ee a Se, ae aeat ca : i J Ce All of the earlier archives at Santa Fe, with this exception and two others, were destroyed by the Indians in the Pueblo Rebellion of 1680. The Spaniards, in August of that year, under the governor and captain- eats e RPE ? oi 3AN SAL bl Uf edt : it I 3 Irs ies oy; Metre * LUT hs e k b04 he bree 4 oh eaate te So ee ek aes | cs} ec Lee - |
