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Show BIBLIOGRAPHY Alegre, Francisco Javier Aparicio, Manuel R. Bandelier, A. F. Barreiro, Antonio Espejo, Antonio de Pacheco, Salmeron, Joaquin P. Torquemada, Juan Villagré, Gaspar de Mexico, 1841. Historical Introduction. Ojeada sobre Nuevo Mewico, Puebla, 1832. Relacion del Viage que hizo, ete., in Pacheco, in Hakluyt’s Voyages, iii, 383. 100. Historia Breve de la Conquista, Mexico, 1839. Commerce of the Prairies, New York, 1844. Historia Eclesiastica Indiana, Mexico, 1870. Conquest of Nueva Galicia, Mexico, 1870. Apuntaciones, in Doe. Hist. Mex., 3rd ser., iv, 56. Exposicion Sucinta, Cadiz, 1812; ico, 1849, F. Zarate de Jesus, Los Conventos Suprimidos en Mesico, Mexico, 1861. Also Frejes, Francisco Gregg, Josiah Mendieta, Geronimo Mota Padilla Niel, Juan A. Pino, Pedro Bautista CHAPTER Historia de la Compania de Not. Hist., Mex- Coleccion de Documentos Inéditos, Madrid, 18641881. Cited as Pacheco, Doc. Relaciones de N. Mexico, in Doc. Hist. of Mex., 3rd ser., iv. Monarquia Indiana, Madrid, 1723. 3 vols. Historia de Mexico. Nuevo Mexico, 1610, Alcala, Reprint, VII THE CONQUEST OF NEw Mexico By Don JUAN DE ONaTE, 1595-1598 HE actual conquest of New Mexico was accomplished by Don Juan de Ofiate in the years 1598 and 1599. In making his preparations for his journey to the far north he was engaged several years. His is the prominent name in the history of New Mexico for the following twenty years. He was well fitted for his task of giving civilization to the country, and undertook the enterprise in a most systematic manner. His achievement is one of the most important in the annals of the country and, until the appearance of Bancroft’s account of his entry and march, very little had been published in the English language in relation to this most important event. The early standard writers were very brief and generally inaccurate in their story of this conquest.° 05 Bancroft, H. H., History of Arizona and New Mexico, p. 110: ‘* Nearly all gave the date as 1595-6, fixing it by that of Ofiate’s preparations; and greatly underestimating the delays that ensued; and only Mariana, the historian of Spain, seems to have given a correct date. The sum and substance of all these versions, rejecting errors, would be hardly more than a statement that in 1595 Ofiate undertook the enterprise, and soon, with the aid of Franciscan friars, succeeded in occupying the province, and even made a tour to the Qui- vira region in the northeastern plains. ’’ a That later writers, consulting only a part of these earlier authorities, should not have materially improved the accuracy and completeness of the record, is not surprising. They have made a few slight additions from documentary Sources; but they have retained, for the most part, the erroneous dates, and have introduced some new errors, the latest and best of them, Davis and Prince, having copied the blunder of some faulty document consulted, and moved the conquest back to 1591. In an elaborate note, Mr. Bancroft gives a résumé of the statements made by the earlier writers. He says: Torquemada, Monarqua Indiana, i, 670 et Seq., mentions the confirmations of Ofiate’s contract in 1595 by viceroy MonteTey, the enlistment of men in Mexico and the appointment of a comisario of the Franciscan band, but gives no further details or dates until after New Mexico was occupied, that is, after 1600. ‘‘Pasaron todos, hasta llegar 4 las Poblaciones que Haman N. Mexico, y alli asentaron Real, y oi Dia permanece, y de la que ha ido sucediendo se dira en sus lugares.’’ This is virtually Torque- |