Identifier: newcoloradosanta00hayerich (find matches)
Title: New Colorado and the Santa Fé trail
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Hayes, Augustus Allen, 1837-1892
Subjects: Colorado -- Description and travel Santa Fe National Historic Trail
Publisher: London, C. K. Paul & Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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men now find con-genial homes. Yet in 1527, only thirty-five years after Columbus hadgiven a new world to Castile and Leon, Alva Nunez Cabeza de Vacasailed from Spain, and landed in what is now Florida; thence he made awonderful overland journey, occupying nearly nine years, and after pass-ing through the region known at present as Kew Mexico, arrived at thecity of Mexico in the summer of 1536, more than eighty years before theMayfloimr dropped her anchor off the American coast. Previous to hiscoming, wonderful stories had reached the Spanish authorities of the Seven Cities of Cibola; and his accounts induced the sending of expedi-tions to the North, which finally resulted in the conquest of the country. i;u iMlW COLORADO AM> TIIK SANTA VE TKAIL. Ill !.);>!) Niza laid claiin to Cihola in the iiaiiic of the Kiii^- of Spain; andwliile the aetual (hite t)f tlie foiiiuliiig of the city of Santa Fe is in doubt,it probably antedates Leudville hy some three centuries. Into the field of
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ALVA NUNEZ CABEZA DE VACA CROSSING THE GKEAT AMERICAN DESERT. fascinating inquiry and speculation as to the pre-Columbian inhabitants itis not permissible here to enter. The Pullman car now bears the enter-prising antiquarian, in ease and comfort, to the banks of the Rio Grandedel Norte, and his learned lucubrations will soon be spread broadcast overthe land. It was at about the beginning of this century that it dawned upon ourpeople that there were good markets as well as cities and jDcople in andnear this same Eio Grande Valley, and under Mexican rule. There is saidto be in the ancient palace at Santa Fe a Spanish document proving theexistence of a trail, in the last quarter of the eighteenth century, from theold French settlements in what is now Illinois to some of the towns inKew Mexico; and from one of them—Abiquiu—to California. GeneralKearny is said to have despatched a courier over the latter; but all effortsof the writer have failed to prove the authenticity, or secure a

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