What to see in America . o, Texas. Now the Pueblos were in possession of Santa Fe and of thedearly bought independence which they had so long beencraving. They determined that the language of the whitemen was to be forgotten and his religion discarded. Until1692 they had things their own way. Then the Spanishgovernor led a force up the Rio Grande from El Paso andinduced the Indians in the Santa Fe vicinity to surrenderand to renew allegiance to the Spaniards religion. InDecember of the next year he returned with a colony ofseventy families, but the Indians refused to vacate the townbuildings u
What to see in America . o, Texas. Now the Pueblos were in possession of Santa Fe and of thedearly bought independence which they had so long beencraving. They determined that the language of the whitemen was to be forgotten and his religion discarded. Until1692 they had things their own way. Then the Spanishgovernor led a force up the Rio Grande from El Paso andinduced the Indians in the Santa Fe vicinity to surrenderand to renew allegiance to the Spaniards religion. InDecember of the next year he returned with a colony ofseventy families, but the Indians refused to vacate the townbuildings until they were attacked and overpowered. Fourhundred of the womenand children were dis-tributed among the col-onists. When Lieut. Pikevisited Santa Fe in1807 the palace wasthere as it is now, andwas the only buildingin New Mexico thatcould boast the luxuryof glass windows. In1847 the New Mexi-cans had their first op-portunity of becomingacquainted with a saw-mill. The mill was placed in operation on Pooya Cliff Dwellings. 430 What to See in America Santa Fe Creek. The first raihoad to reach the city arrivedin 1880, and thenceforth the rumble of the long caravanrolling its weary way into the crooked streets of the Cityof the Holy Faith was forever stilled. The Old Palace has been occupied as executive buildingby a succession of almost one hundred governors — Spanish,Pueblo, Mexican, and American — some of whom heldsway over a territory larger than the original thirteen was built in 1606, and is without doubt the oldest govern-mental building in our country. The structure is essentiallyunchanged, and probably no walls within our domain havewitnessed inside and out such cruelty and horror, treacheryand suffering, valor and chivalry, as the big low adobepalace which fronts the historic plaza. In one of its roomsLew Wallace, when governor of New Mexico, wrote a partof his famous novel, Ben Hur. It contains a museum ofold Spanish paintings and historical relics. Only on
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