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ooms, a capilla (chapel) and a meeting hall. Santero religious religious iconography is used in the
services and in time the Brotherhood is the chief patron of this folk art form.
Women are not members of the Brotherhood, though they can serve as Auxiliadoras (Auxiliaries)
who help with various duties. They are also referred to as Verónicas, Carmelitas, or Terceras.
*July 6, 1824 New Mexico becomes a Mexican Territory.
1825
Ceran de Hault de Lassus de St. Vrain arrives in Taos from Missouri.
*1826
Kit Carson, fleeing from his apprenticeship as a saddler in Missouri, arrives in New Mexico and
almost immediately takes up residence in Taos.
*On July 23, 1826, Padre Martínez is installed as a Pastor of Taos and in November opens a
school.
*1827-1829
Manuel Armijo becomes Governor at age 34. During his first of three terms, he confronts and
arrests American smugglers among the traders from Missouri. This causes him to receive bad
publicity in the United States.
In 1828, St. Vrain meets Charles Bent, a fellow Missourian, and in time the firm of Bent, St.
Vrain and Co. is founded, which included brothers of both, William and Marcellin, respectively,
and both marry Hispanic women from Taos.
*1832 - 1833
Santiago Abreu is Governor.
In 1832 the Tierra Amarilla Land Grant is made to Manuel Martínez as principal petitioner. He
has six sons, J. Julia, J. Vicente, J. Eusebio, J. Sixto, J. Antonio, J. Francisco, and two daughters,
M. Dolores and María de Jesús.
A huge adobe structure known as Bent's Fort is completed on the north bank of the Arkansas
River near the mouth of the Purgatory. The large structure is 137 by 178 feet surrounded by
14-foot walls three feet thick, surmounted by 18-foot corner bastions that fly the American Flag,
"a stronghold and hospice in one." Inside there are living quarters, a trading room, warehouses, a
recreation center, and stables.
William Bent manages the fort, Charles Bent brings supplies from Missouri, and Ceran St.
Vrain manages satellite stores in Taos and Santa Fe, and expands the business into Chihuahua
and Sonora.
New Mexicans charge that hostile Indians acquire firearms at Bent's Fort and then are
encouraged to attack New Mexican villages. Authors like Rodolfo Acuna (Occupied America)
and Genero Padilla (My History, Not Yours) have written that Charles Bent was a leader of U.S.
citizens operating around Taos who openly supported Texas' claims to New Mexico while they
indulged in smuggling, theft, and collusion with various Texans and harboring known thieves.
1833
Mary Donoho was the first Anglo American woman to travel along the Santa Fe Trail coming
with her husband, William, to operate what is now know as the La Fonda Hotel but earlier The
Exchange Hotel then the U.S. Hotel.
*1837 - Major Revolt
In August the Revolution breaks out in the Chimayo-Santa Cruz area. It is led by the alcalde
Juan José Esquibel and supported by a 12-member council referred to as El Cantón de la Canada.
Their avowed purpose is to sustain God, the nation, and the faith of Christ; to defend New Mexico
to the last; not to allow the Departmental Plan or any tax associated with it; and to stop the
excesses of those who try to carry them out. An army is gathered. Governor Pérez doesn't have
enough soldiers to quell the uprising so he flees south but is stopped on August 8 in the vicinity of
Agua Fría Road southwest of Santa Fe. After Governor Pérez's death during the revolt, José
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