The Old Spanish Trail (Spanish: Viejo Sendero Español) is a historical trade route that connected the northern New Mexico settlements of (or near) Santa Fe, New Mexico with those of Los …

Click one of the Southwest USA states for a more detailed map: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Texas and Wyoming. Also shown are all the …

May 26, 2011 · In 1829, an intrepid merchant opened a long-desired trade route--known today as the Old Spanish Trail--between the Mexican provinces of Alta California and New Mexico, …

Shown is the area Mexico ceded to the United States in 1848, minus Texan claims. The Mexican Cession consisted of the present-day U.S. states of California, Nevada, Utah, most of Arizona, …

By the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo ending the Mexican War, made public in Washington on July 4, 1848, the United States achieved its principal objectives: the acquisition of New Mexico and …

The Old Spanish National Historic Trail spans between Santa Fe, New Mexico and Los Angeles California. Over its years of use, it followed several different routes through New Mexico, …

The Southern Emigrant Trail, also known as the Gila Trail, the Kearny Trail, the Southern Trail and the Butterfield Stage Trail, was a major land route for immigration into California from the …

The journey and our settlement was part of a long tradition of the New Mexican colonization of southern California whose culmination had taken place almost a century before. Antecedents …

All three states had populations loyal to the Confederacy, and southern New Mexico had already effectively seceded from the government at Santa Fe and formed a separate territory …

Jul 30, 2024 · The United States and Mexico share a nearly 2,000-mile land border. Along the way, the American states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas abut the Mexican …