The story of Spanish settlement in New Mexico begins with Francisco
Vasquez de Coronado's expedition into the territory in 1540-1542.
The conquistadors were seeking new lands, gold, and converts to
Christianity. In 1598, Juan de Onate's expedition of soldiers,
settlers and indigenous Mexicans arrived, charged by the Crown to
colonize the northern frontier of New Spain. Far from Mexico and
the seat of Spanish government, in a land of extremes already
inhabited by the First Americans, these settlers proved their
tenacity. Farmers, shepherds and townspeople, they lived off the
land: they built houses and churches, constructed irrigation
ditches, raised crops, wove cloth and hunted for food in an often
hostile land. They borrowed, bartered and intermarried with their
Pueblo neighbors and weathered an occasional uprising; they battled
with Comanche, Apache, and Navajo for control of land and
resources. When the American army arrived, they chose sides and
paid the consequences. Between 1936 and 1940, field workers in the
New Deal Works Project Administration's Federal Writers' Project
(WPA) recorded authentic accounts of life in the early days of New
Mexico. Happily for us, Hispano settlers were avid storytellers and
gave the field writers detailed descriptions of village life,
battles with Indians, encounters with Billy the Kid, witchcraft,
marriages, festivals and floods. The result is a rich and uniquely
regional literature. "Stories from Hispano New Mexico" is the
fourth volume in the New Mexico Federal Writers' Project Book
series. The first three titles in the series are "Outlaws &
Desperados, Frontier Stories" and "Lost Treasures & Old Mines,"
all from Sunstone Press. ANN LACY, an artist and researcher/writer,
has lived in New Mexico since 1979. She has worked for Project
Crossroads, a not-for-profit educational resource group, in
projects related to New Mexico history and culture. Participating
in preserving open space and preservation efforts, she received a
City of Santa Fe Heritage Preservation Award in 2000. ANNE
VALLEY-FOX is co-editor of the New Mexico Federal Writers' Project
Book series. She is a poet and writer who has worked for two
decades as a writer/researcher for Project Crossroads. Her fourth
collection of poetry is "How Shadows Are Bundled" (University of
New Mexico Press, 2009).
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