Travel Guide New Mexico tm Hampton Inn Taos
Pick your adventure in and around Taos, a small town that offers a respected artistic community, many treasures of history and access to worlds of sporting thrills. The Hampton Inn® hotel in Taos is located across from the South Side Convention Center and just a couple of minutes from Central Plaza.
Get a real taste of frontier history at the Kit Carson Home and Museum, the notorious Governor Bent Home, or the Blumenschein Home & Museum—all just a few minutes from our Taos hotel. Take in the artistic side of the area at the Fechin Institute or the Harwood Museum of Art. Our Taos hotel also puts you within reach of spectacular skiing at Taos Ski Valley or Wheeler Peak, or whitewater rafting at Taos Box on the Rio Grande. Visit Rancho de Taos for historic churches, or Taos Pueblo to see an ancient American Indian community. Ask the team at our Taos hotel for more tips on enjoying all of the local sights.
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The Taos Plaza is the historic center of the town of Taos. Once a Spanish fortified walled plaza with houses and businesses, it now has a park with shady trees, park benches, and a gazebo surrounded by retail businesses made of adobe. An anchor of the plaza is the Hotel La Fonda de Taos, which has a small museum of D.H. Lawrence paintings and a restaurant named Joseph's Table with hand-painted floral murals. There is metered parking within the plaza and shopping includes galleries of Native American art and jewelry and souvenir shops.
It is the central point for a walking tour of the Taos Downtown Historic District, which includes the Ernest L. Blumenschein House, Harwood Museum of Art, Governor Charles Bent House, Taos Inn, John Dunn House, Taos Art Museum, and the Nicolai Fechin House.
It is located immediately west of the intersection of US 64 Kit Carson Road
History
Located in Taos, New Mexico. Spanish settlers began colonization of the Taos Valley in 1616, but the Plaza dates to the late 18th century when the Don Fernando de Taos Land Grant was ceded to Spanish settlers from the Taos Pueblo in 1796 by Don Fernando de Chacon, Governor of New Mexico. It and the Taos Pueblo were the terminal points of the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, or King's Highway, from Mexico City.
Taos Plaza served for decades as the central meeting place in the valley and survived numerous fires that destroyed several older buildings.
Nearby is the home of Charles Bent, who was appointed Governor of New Mexico when it became an American Territory during the Mexican-American War. He was killed by Indian rebels during the Taos Revolt.
Tourism
In 1861, during the Civil War, Southern sympathizers repeatedly tore down the flag flying over the Plaza. Captain Smith Simpson with the help of Kit Carson, Ceran St. Vrain, and others guarded the flag 24 hours a day. Congress permitted Taos to fly the flag twenty-four hours a day to commemorate the event
Tourism : Taos Plaza is a tourist destination with many shops displaying Northern New Mexico foods and cultural items, including products made in Taos, chile ristras, packaged food items, Southwestern jewelry, pottery, clothing, leather work, and Native American moccasins and drums.
The last week of July brings the Fiestas de Santa Ana y Santiago, a weekend long celebration of the Hispanic heritage of Taos when the plaza is filled with music, food, and dance. It begins with a Friday night Mass and includes crowning of a fiesta queen. Other events, many of which are free, are held throughout the year in the plaza, including free music in the summer and Yuletide celebrations in December
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Montana's Cowboy Artist and the Women in His Life
Charlie Russell is best known for his depictions of the masculine world of the frontier: broncs bucking, Indians scouting, hard-working cowboys roping steers, and hard-playing cowboys roping wolves and bears. But women--most notably his wife Nancy Cooper Russell--also played important roles in his life and his art.
Kirby Lambert, co-author of the forthcoming book, Montana's Charlie Russell: Art in the Collection of the Montana Historical Society, examines the ways in which women impacted Russell and the ways in which his art reflects this impact. Presented on March 19, 2014--the 150th anniversary of Charlie Russell's birth. montanahistoricalsociety.org
Castle On The Plain- 1977
1977 Visitor orientation film Bent's Old Fort
Sterling Price | Wikipedia audio article
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Sterling Price
00:00:57 1 Early life and career
00:03:00 2 Mexican–American War
00:04:23 3 Governor of Missouri
00:05:24 4 Civil War service
00:05:33 4.1 Early months
00:07:23 4.2 Pea Ridge, Iuka, and Corinth
00:10:03 4.3 Arkansas and Louisiana
00:11:31 4.4 Price's Missouri Raid
00:13:44 4.5 Notable battles
00:14:02 5 Post-war activities and death
00:15:09 6 Modern assessment of Price's Missouri campaign
00:17:32 7 CSS/USS iGeneral Sterling Price/i
00:18:25 8 Legacy
00:19:45 9 See also
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Sterling Old Pap Price (September 14, 1809 – September 29, 1867) was an American lawyer, planter, soldier, and politician from the U.S. state of Missouri, who served as the 11th Governor of the state from 1853 to 1857. He also served as a United States Army brigadier general during the Mexican–American War, and a Confederate Army major general in the American Civil War. Price is best known for his victories in New Mexico and Chihuahua during the Mexican conflict, and for his losses at the Battles of Pea Ridge and Westport during the Civil War–the latter being the culmination of his ill-fated Missouri Campaign of 1864.
Following the war, Price took his remaining troops to Mexico rather than surrender. He unsuccessfully sought military service with Emperor Maximillian there. He ultimately returned to Missouri, where he died in poverty. He was buried in St. Louis.
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Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award: Dr. Andrew Graybill
On Monday April 21st 2014, ASU's Dr. Donald Fixico interviewed Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award winner Dr. Andrew Graybill about his book The Red and the White: A Family Saga of the American West.
Dr. Andrew Graybill is associate professor of history at Southern Methodist University and director of the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies.
Dr. Donald Fixico is Distinguished Foundation Professor of History at Arizona State University.
About the book:
Award-winning western historian Andrew R. Graybill sheds light on the overlooked interracial Native-white relationships critical in the development of the trans-Mississippi West in this multigenerational saga. Beginning in 1844 with the marriage of Montana fur trader Malcolm Clarke and his Piegan Blackfeet bride, Coth-co-co-na, Graybill traces the family from the mid-nineteenth century, when such mixed marriages proliferated, to the first half of the twentieth, when Clarke's children and grandchildren often encountered virulent prejudice. At the center of Graybill's history is the virtually unexamined 1870 Marias Massacre, on a par with the more infamous slaughters at Sand Creek and Wounded Knee, an episode set in motion by the murder of Malcolm Clarke and in which Clarke's two sons rode with the Second U.S. Cavalry to kill their own blood relatives. - from the publisher
ISBN 9780871404459
(AV17867) The West Before Lewis and Clark
Description: The West Before Lewis and Clark
Lecturer: Elliot West
Date Created: 4/4/12
Original Creator: University Lecture Series
Original Format: CD-DA
Original Digital Format: .WAV File