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The Unfortunate Colony – Acoma!

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II.  Acoma! ~ Upon a hill, impregnable, a mighty fortress, still: a city in the sky upon a mesa stood:     Guarded Acoma!   Oñate came in Ninety-Eight, incurred the wrath and Pueblo hate, demanding more they could afford – the Natives would deny! and bring about the total rout, this City in the […] Continue reading →

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The Unfortunate Colony – Cibola

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~ At the fin de siècle myths are re-newed, and Cibola re-sought for thought to be true.   Wealth! beyond measure, there for the leisure to take for España, the King, and their God;   but of that brought back, was fraught with the bad, from a land that was called New Mexico.   Oñate […] Continue reading →

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