Southwestern Archaeology, Inc. (SWA) " Got CALICHE ? " Newsletter Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of the Greater Southwest! Wednesday January 21, 2004 ***************************************** ON THE ROAD AGAIN http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/7744608.htm The Santa Fe Trail covers about 900 miles across Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma and New Mexico. http://www.dchieftain.com/cuentos/37013-01-14-04.html The El Camino Real International Heritage Center is set to open in November 2005. The Museum of New Mexico is doing the exhibition contracting for the BLM. http://www.americancowboy.com/jf04/travel_jf04.shtml La Hacienda ( aka the Harts Mill Residence) was the site of the crossing of Don Juan de Onate. Hart came along much later—in the 1800s—and ran the place as a mill and stage stop, among other things. Just a couple blocks away are the last remaining buildings of Old Fort Bliss, the early military outpost here. One of the best things to see in El Paso is the Mission Trail -- a historic stretch that links three historic old Spanish Missions, southeast of town, on Farm Road 258. The first you encounter is the Ysleta Mission, which, though it is not well-appointed with signage or displays, and apparently little staff, has much atmosphere. Founded in 1682, it is both the oldest mission in Texas and the oldest church in continuous usage in the United States. http://www.dchieftain.com/news/36732-01-03-04.html New Mexico became a part of the Spanish Empire upon the arrival of 200 families, led by Juan de Oņate, in 1598. Some of those families settled near the Piro Indian village of Pilabo, renamed Socorro by Oņate. Individual and communal land grants were issued to these settlers by Spain. Socorro applied for, and received, a communal Spanish Land Grant, which extended from about San Antonio to San Acacia, and from the Rio Grande to the Colorado River. In those days, New Mexico included what is today Arizona. Most of these Spanish Land Grant documents were lost or destroyed in 1680 during the Pueblo Revolt. Editor's Note: With doctoral program research tasks taking priority the remainder of the week, got caliche newsletter will be slip slidin' away for the next several days... adios mi chaparrita! ***************************************** Contact the Newsletter Editor: archaeologist@rocketmail.com Restatement of Disclosure Notice posted at www.swanet.org: is a public e-mail address for SWA and the "Got CALICHE?" newsletter editor. Unless your e-mail is marked 'confidential' or 'not for publication' -- SWA actively presumes that your correspondence IS a 'letter to the editor' forwarded for publication consideration and public consumption. SWA reserves the right to edit publishable correspondence for format, brevity and clarity. If you desire private corrrespondence with the editor, a personal e-mail address is provided (at www.swanet.org, click on "Contacts" button, then "Brian Kenny"). ***************************************** Post letter mail and other media to: Southwestern Archaeology, Inc. P.O. Box 61203 Phoenix AZ, USA 85082-1203 602.697.5754 (cellular) 602.372.8539 (digital fax) 603.457.7957 (digital fax) http://www.swanet.org (url) http://www.swanet.org/images/license.pdf SWA invites you to redistribute SWA's "Got CALICHE?" Newsletter. We also request your timely news articles, organizational activities and events, technical and scientific writings, and opinion pieces, to be shared with our digital community. SWA's daily newsletter deals with quotidian issues of anthropology and archaeology -- cultural survival, time and space, material culture, social organization, and commerce, to name just a few. Our electronic potlatch and digital totemic increase rites focus and multiply historic preservation activities in the Greater Southwest. SWA's newsletters are "txt" format only, contain no attachments, and are virus free. Newsletter archives and free subscription . For information archived on SWA's server, visit . Thanks for reading today's edition! Southwestern Archaeology, Inc. (SWA) - A 501(c)(3) customer-centric corporation dedicated to the ethnographic study of the scientific practices of the American Southwest and the Mexican Northwest. Our goal is to create and promote diverse micro-environments and open systems in which archaeologists can develop their talents and take the risks from which innovation and productivity arise.