Buddy Mays
2) Santa Fe
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Located in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Santa Fe was founded in 1608 by Spanish colonists and Franciscan missionaries who were searching for gold, arable land, and Indians to convert to Christianity. In the 400 years since, this mountain community has been the hub of Spanish colonialism in the New World, the terminus of the historic Santa Fe Trail, and since 1912, the state capital of New Mexico. It is America's third-oldest continuously...
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©1982
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This book is arranged as a popular guide, with sites grouped geographically for easy access from major Southwestern cities and popular resort areas. Each site described is fully protected and administered as a park, monument or historic site, and each features improved access, convenience facilities at the site or nearby and some degree of interpretive services at the time of print.