Santa Fe, New Mexico

In 1922, representatives from seven US states met near Santa Fe, New Mexico to discuss and divide the river’s water. Natives, who use the water from the Colorado, on both sides of the border in Mexico and the United States, let alone any Mexican government, were not invited to participate in the discussion. This was the Colorado River Compact. In 1944, Mexico got it’s voice in a bi-national treaty that gave the state 1/10th of the rivers water flow. It took no time for dams and canals to get built

factors in the Northwestern part of Mexico. According to Narcisa Zarate in her book, Education of the Mexican American in the United States, she stated that “In 1822, the commercial connection of Santa Fe trade… brought Americans into Mexico, many Americans settle there. Thus, the Northwestern part of Mexico, later known as New Mexico, Texas, and California, gained population of Americans.” The gained of population of Americans in the Northwestern part of Mexico, resulted with the Treaty of Guadalupe

Latour, who leaves France and is headed for North America but ends up being sent to New Mexico after it was added to the United States. He spends the rest of middle to old age doing work as a bishop and then archbishop. In turn, he builds a cathedral, and spreads the word of Catholicism to the people. Latour eventually does die but only after he changes thousands of lives, travels a thousand miles of desert land, changes New Mexican architecture and meets some interesting characters. A priest named Father

provinces such as California, Texas and New Mexico is inherited by Mexico from Spain. Mexico government was weakened and practically bankrupt after the war and was unable to take control of their territories. Before the war started, there are many causes for the war but what and how did the war start. It all began when Hernán Cortés first conquers central Mexico. In Mexico, Spain establishes a colonial government. The colony of Jamestown, Virginia, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and San Antonio, Texas founded

is the Libertarian Party nominee to be president. Gary was born on January 1, 1953 in Minot, North Dakota. Gary is the son of Lorraine B. and Earl W. Johnson. In 1971 Johnson graduated from Sandia High School in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Gary attended the University of New Mexico from 1971 to 1975 where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in political science. Gary met his future wife, Denise “Dee” Simms while he was in the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. He made his own business in 1976

once again were temporarily quieted by a new compromise, the Compromise of 1850. The Compromise of 1850 consisted of 5 laws. It was decided that California would be admitted to the Union as a free state. The Compromise also introduced popular sovereignty, Utah and New Mexico would decide amongst itself the question of slavery. It also settled Texas’s boundary disputes. Texas claimed it owned land until the Santa Fe; however the compromises determined new Texas boundaries, and granted Texas $10 million

artist, born November 15, 1887. She was the second of seven children. Georgia grew up on a farm near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. died March 6, 1986, Santa Fe, NM. She was best known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New Mexico landscapes, and New York skyscrapers. She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1905-1906 and the Art Students League in New York in 1907-1908, it was here that she learned the techniques of traditional realist painting. She was married to Alfred Stieglitz from 1924–1946

of controversy long after their birth, but one element of the compromise perceives to fail in obtaining recognition. The Texas-New Mexico boundary resolution seems to find itself fading away from its relevancy to the civil war, shadowed by more prominent issues regarding the stability of the Union. Abandoning the traditional teaching of the compromise, the Texas-New Mexico border decision figuratively and literally changed the identity of Texas. This was the long awaited result caused by deep rooted

into the fur-trading business. William was trapping along the upper Arkansas river by age fifteen, and in 1829 he helped his brother take a wagon train of trade goods down the Santa Fe Trail. With a partner, the Bents soon formed a trading company that bought and sold across the southwest -- Mexican blankets, New Mexico sheep, buffalo robes from the Plains, pelts from the Rocky Mountains, horses, mules and all manner of manufactured goods. At the center of this network stood Bent's Fort, a massive

per unit is $10.00, while the El Paso plant produces at $10.50. However, the El Paso plant has a higher capacity at 30,000 to San Bernardino’s 20,000. Once manufactured, the meters are sent to one of three distribution centers – Ft. Worth, Texas, Santa