• Posts Tagged ‘Apache’

    Anza, Horses, and “the Indian Problem”

    by  • March 26, 2018 • LifeStuff • 2 Comments

    I’m not writing as much as I’d like to, certainly. Life right now feels like a season of wandering, within and without. But at least I am trying to read some more again. Returning from the Arizona trip, though, my interest in the Anza project has returned, although I find myself frequently wondering why...

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    Deepened by the Drought

    by  • March 14, 2017 • LifeStuff • 0 Comments

    It had been bad for a while, but I guess in the mid-1770’s it got really bad. From 1772 to 1776, a drought seized Nuevo Mexico, and thin food and water resources became even more scarce in the desolate territory. For those Spaniard colonists who took a chance and settled north of the Sonora...

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