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Show 472 LEADING FACTS MEXICAN OF NEW HISTORY The story of the life of under the great Spanish captain-general. and his remarkable tale, fairy a as g excitin and nt brillia Ortiz is as character. While eous courag adventures served to develop a bold and g from the winnin by king his of favor the won yet a boy, he had from his secured he Moors the city of Guevara, by which exploit . Guevara de Ladron Nifio name, his to n royal master the additio a brought with him Guevar de Ladron Nifo Ortiz Nicolas n Captai present at the cereto New Mexico his wife and family, and all were of Santa Fé. His city the into entry the of time the at monies had several children, were There wife was Maria Ana Garcia Coronado. de Guevara. Ladron Nifio Ortiz Nicolas also was of whom the eldest of one of dant descen a The latter married Dofia Juana Baca, also the re-conquistadores. Of this marriage there were three children, co, and Toribio Nicolas Ortiz Nifio Ladron de Guevara, 3rd, Francis d Gertrudis marrie eldest The a. Ortiz Nifio Ladron de Guevar governor and and soldier famous a of er daught the o, Paez Hurtad captain-general of the province. Of this marriage there were two The last named married children, Juan Antonio and Antonio José. Bustamante, govRosa de Bustamante, daughter of Don Pedro de of which union there were ernor and captain-general of the province, Gertrudis Ortiz Nino five children, among them a daughter, Ana Domingo Baca. Ladron de Guevara, who became the wife of Juan of whom, Ana one ge, marria this of n childre twelve were There Maria, married Don Pedro Bautista Pino. The fruit of this mar- Nicolas riage was Don Facundo Pino, Don Miguel E. Pino, and Don Pino, all of whom were prominent in the affairs of New Mexico during the years of Mexican rule, and whose names will appeat period, and also later in the history of the American occupation during the Civil War period of our country. capacity a8 Don Pedro was not able to accomplish much in his from abroad 4 return his after and e, provinc the from delegate ed in a charming statement of what he had accomplished was embodi couplet, as follows: Don Pedro Pino fue; Don Pedro Pino vino. ac His Exposicion, as he termed his report to the king, is fairly curate in its statements as to the history of New Mexico during the endeavored to im preceding two centuries of Spanish rule. He the Americans from ion aggress of danger the king the press upon this, Pin0 meet To co-operating with the Indians of the plains. Major Zebulon M. Pike, |