Economic beginnings of the Far West: how we won the land beyond the Mississippi . o, while reinforcements andsupplies were collected for the reconquest of NewMexico. Fifteen years of obstinate fighting wererequired to recover the lost ground. Even so, thesubmission of the Indians was only feigned, andthey seized every opportunity to attack the weakersettlements, carry off the cattle, and murder themissionaries. The Moqui and Zuni pueblos of theplateau to the west, being too isolated and remotefor serious attack, retained their independence. In 1693 Vargas undertook to restore the ruinedsettlem
Economic beginnings of the Far West: how we won the land beyond the Mississippi . o, while reinforcements andsupplies were collected for the reconquest of NewMexico. Fifteen years of obstinate fighting wererequired to recover the lost ground. Even so, thesubmission of the Indians was only feigned, andthey seized every opportunity to attack the weakersettlements, carry off the cattle, and murder themissionaries. The Moqui and Zuni pueblos of theplateau to the west, being too isolated and remotefor serious attack, retained their independence. In 1693 Vargas undertook to restore the ruinedsettlements. A caravan of fifteen hundred people,three thousand horses and mules, and $42,000 worthof supplies was escorted up the river. Santa Fewas repopulated, seventy families were settled atSanta Cruz de la Canada (1695) and thirty at Albu-querque (1708), There was little resistance, for thelong years of war had decimated the Indian popu-lation. Most of the warriors fled to the mountainsrather than submit again to Spanish domination,and their women and children were captured and. THE COLONIZERS 39 enslaved. Intertribal dissensions and repeated fail-ure of crops completed the disaster. When Vargasresumed control of the province, only twenty of thepueblos remained inhabited. The abandoned landswere distributed among the settlers, and the dejectedremnant of the native population was reduced to asullen submission. The wild tribes of the mountains, the Apachesand the Utes, had long been the terror of the pueblodwellers. They now directed their marauding ex-peditions against the Spanish settlements. Horsesand fusils were the prime object of these depreda-tions, but the savages did not hesitate to murdermen and kidnap women of the hated Spanish slender garrison at Santa Fe was entirely inade-quate to the defence of villages and ranchos scatteredfrom Taos to El Paso, and the settlers had to protecttheir families and flocks as best they could. In spiteof these depredations, the w
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