El Rancho de Las Golondrinas

Presented by Samantha Nava. This talk shares highlights from an oral history research on the Merced de San Miguel del Bado, also known as the San Miguel del Vado Land Grant. This land grant was established in the late 18th century along the Pecos River Valley (“El Valle”) downstream from Pecos Pueblo. These oral histories […]

Even long-established and self-sustaining locations such as El Rancho de Las Golondrinas were affected by the coming of the railroads. They were the Space Program of the 1880s and changed everything from legislation to architecture. At first, for the railroads, New Mexico was a place to get through, rather than to. That view changed as […]