All Trails Lead to Santa Fe (Softcover)

An Anthology Commemorating the 400th Anniversary of the Founding of Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1610

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• Publisher: Sunstone Press
• Year: 2010
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781611397062
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

Santa Fe, as a tourist destination and an international art market with its attraction of devotees to opera, flamenco, good food and romanticized cultures, is also a city of deep historical drama. Like its seemingly "adobe style-only" architecture, all one has to do is turn the corner and discover a miniature Alhambra, a Romanesque Cathedral, or a French-inspired chapel next to one of the oldest adobe chapels in the United States to realize its long historical diversity. This fusion of architectural styles is a mirror of its people, cultures and history. From its early origins, Native American presence in the area through the archaeological record is undeniable and has proved to be a force to be reckoned with as well as reconciled. It was, however, the desire of European arrivals, Spaniards, already mixed in Spain and Mexico, to create a new life, a new environment, different architecture, different government, culture and spiritual life that set the foundations for the creation of "La Villa de Santa Fe." Indeed, Santa Fe remained Spanish from its earliest Spanish presence of 1607 until 1821. But history is not just the time between dates but the human drama that creates the "City Different." The Mexican Period of 1821-1848, American occupation and the following Territorial Period into Statehood are no less defining and, in fact, are as traumatic for some citizens as the first European contact. This tapestry was all held together by the common belief that Santa Fe was different and after centuries of coexistence a city with its cultures, tolerance and beauty was worth preserving. Indeed, the existence and awareness of this oldest of North American capitals was to attract the famous as well as infamous: poets, writers, painters, philosophers, scientists and the sickly whose prayers were answered in the thin dry air of the city situated at the base of the Sangre de Cristos at 7, 000 foot elevation. We hope readers will enjoy "All Trails Lead to Santa Fe" and in its pages discover facts not revealed before, or, in the sense of true adventure, enlighten and encourage the reader to continue the search for the evolution of "La Villa de Santa Fe."

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Introduction
• Listen
• 1 Down at the Shell-bead Water
• 2 A City Different Than We Thought, Land Grants in Early Santa Fe, 1598–1900
• 3 The Viceroy’s Order Founding the Villa of Santa Fe, A Reconsideration, 1605–1610
• 4 Thirty-eight Adobe Houses, The Villa de Santa Fe in the Seventeenth Century, 1608–1610
• 5 The History of the Santa Fe Plaza, 1610–1720
• 6 A Window to the Past, The San Miguel and La Conquistadora Chapels and Their Builders, 1610–1776
• 7 Barrio de Analco, Its Roots in Mexico and Role in Early Colonial Santa Fe, 1610–1780
• 8 In Her Own Voice, Doña Teresa Aguilera y Rocha and Intrigue in the Palace of the Governors, 1659–1662
• 9 On Establishing a Presidio at Santa Fe, 1678–1693
• 10 Vargas at the Gate, The Spanish Restoration of Santa Fe, 1692–1696
• 11 The Pastures of the Royal Horse Herd of the Santa Fe Presidio, 1692–1740
• 12 It Happened in Old Santa Fe, The Death of Governor Albino Pérez, 1835–1837
• 13 “She Was Our Mother,” New Mexico’s Change of National Sovereignty and Juan Bautista Vigil y Alarid, The Last Mexican Governor of New Mexico
• 14 They Came From the East, Importing Homicide, Violence and Misconceptions of Soft Justice into Early Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1847–1853 / Michael J. Alarid
• 15 King Maker in the Back Room, Editor Max Frost and Hardball Politics in the Late-Territorial Period, 1876–1909
• 16 Progressive Santa Fe, 1880–1912
• 17 The Cure at the End of the Trail, Seeking Health While Transforming a Town, 1880–1940
• 18 Santa Fe in World War II, 1940–1947
• 19 Alcaldes and Mayors of Santa Fe, 1613–2008
• Contributors
• About the 400th Anniversary of Santa Fe
• The 400th Anniversary of Santa Fe Book Committee
• Notes
• Index