On 4 October 1693 don Diego de Vargas left El Paso with eight
hundred settlers and soldiers to reoccupy New Mexico. His account
of organizing the colonizing expedition, leading the march up the
Rio Grande valley, and eventually conquering Santa Fe is presented
in this volume, the third of six drawn from his reports.
Vargas's journal gives immediacy to the themes of reoccupation
and pacification. Many of those he led into New Mexico were
survivors of the Pueblo Revolt, and all, he noted, were now reduced
to "abject poverty and nakedness." To organize the expedition,
Vargas spent eight months in northern Mexico recruiting settlers
and attempting to secure financing from the royal treasury.
When no funds were forthcoming, Vargas and the settlers
nevertheless departed for Santa Fe before winter arrived. On their
march north they survived by trading livestock for foodstuffs, and
by the end of December they successfully reached the colonial
capital and defeated the Pueblo Indians occupying it.
This documentary history in English translation is a key
resource on New Mexico's cultural and political history. Its
extensive annotation will be useful to genealogists as well.
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