European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 10, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse                                These United states new Mexic Colo. Axj2. Santo f. N i w m i x i c o Texas capital Santa fear a 121,666 Square Miles population 983,000 1961 estimate Flower Yucca Bird Road runner tree Pinion this 200-foot-High Sandston Ispir is Star Gallup. Not Tai i-1 a fed Jorv not Here if the first of if Ortet of article about each of Ike. It Tei of the United to tet Phe first part of the United states at a thoroughly explored by euro Pean was the Southwest Francisco Conorman the treat Spanish Conquistador mined All Over it in 1640 and 1641, 25 for before the spaniard founded St. Augustine Fia and 80 Yean before the fort Titi landed at Plymouth Rock. In 1598 the spaniard began colonizing Angion in the upper Rio Grande Valley which they called san Felipe then new Abd Hula. After Spain s Southern province it finally new Mexico. In 1610 they built capital on a High plateau surrounded by and called it Santa be. The time Boston and Manhattan were email Village. New Mexico wag a Spanish Colony of 2,000 spaniards34,000 Christian indians. The province Peom passed All of what is now new mexi Arizona Nevada Utah Colorado and of Wyoming but the principal tet to were in the present state of new of new Mexico s assets remained for centuries longer. Gold was noted until 1859. Although the Span had sought it for More than 250 Yean. Famou Carlsbad caverns went Undis until 1s11. Was not until 1926 that new Mexico s kept secret was discovered the old evidence of Man s existence i North Stone spearheads at least 10,000 old were found that year mingled Mastodon and elephant Bones near East part of the Fatata. Do and Folsom Man Are 1. Rivals of Geronimo. Billy the kid kit car son and col Stephen Watts Karny to the lore and legend of new Mexico s Jong Lii tory. Life in arid new Mexico has always been bound up with its Rivers. The spaniards found the Pueblo and Navajo indians living along the Rio Grande and its principal tributary in the North of san Juan River. Here the spaniards look up farming. Many of the land titles in new Mexico Date from the original Grants made by the King of Spain his name still appears As the Ori Ginal owner on Many deeds. As a Spanish province under the Viceroy of Mexico new Mexico was supplied by mule trains from Mexico City Over a rout called Al Camino real the Royal Road which followed the Rio Grande Valley. I terminated at Santa Fel today nearly two thirds of new Mexico s people live in the Rio Grande Valley. It begins As a deep Gorge in the North and widens to a breadth of several Miles in the South. The Pecos River flow parallel to the Rio Grande in the Eastern half of new Mexico through the heart of the cattle country in the territorial Days after the , the Pecos River Valley served As an artery of Commerce As the Rio Grande did under the Spanish. In the Spring the cattle would be rounded up and driven North along the Pecos Over the Raton pass into Colorado  to summer pasture in Wyomi Gand the Dakotas. New Mexico s most famous Overland route however was the Santa be  missourian named wham b e c k n e 11 blazed the Trail up the Arkansas River and across the mountains through the Raton pass to Santa be in 1821, the year Mexico conf Audi outage 14 Elfi stats v it s net in at r