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a large force, and was held securely iintil 1837 under 

 Spanish dominion. At this period an insurrection 

 among the Spaniards occurred, the dissatisfied ele- 

 ment being largely aided by the Pueblos, and by 

 raids from the Texas Comanches, who massacred 

 and pillaged alike the Pueblos and Spanairds. Then 

 the Apaches and Navajos, powerful tribes, inflexible 

 foes of the Spaniards, were aroused to action and com- 

 mitted frightful ravages, and the Spanish government 

 trembled in the scale, but finally sustained itself 

 until the Mexican War of 1846, when General Kearney 

 made his memorable march with his regiment across 

 the continent to California, subjecting New Mexico 

 and establishing a provisional government at Santa F6. 



Then came the cessation of the Mexican War under 

 the Guadalupe Hidalgo treaty of 1848 with Mexico, 

 and the acquisition of that enormous stretch of country 

 from above Texas and the Mexican border to British 

 Columbia, from out of which so many States and 

 Territories have been added to the American Union. 

 This seizure of territon^ in its importance has never 

 been equalled in the records of historj' as an aggres- 

 sive exhibition of power shown by the United States 

 over a comparatively defenceless foe. 



Our party followed the railroad down to about the 

 middle of the Territory, and left it at the Isleta Pueblo 

 for the purpose of making our way west to the Zuni 

 Pueblo, a hundred and twentv miles or more. Our 

 party comprised five, including one guide, who ac- 

 companied us with a pack mule, carrying supplies 

 and cooking utensils. Mounted and well armed with 

 repeating rifles and side arms we felt pretty well 

 secured for an advance through a mountainous and 



