Over half a century
before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock on the
eastern coast of the North American continent, Europeans had already
made their way northward from Mexico (New Spain) along the Rio Grande
river all the way to what would eventually be Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Around 1558 a.d., they passed through the future site of Las Cruces,
New
Mexico. And for several centuries settlers followed this great highway,
known as El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro.
So, take a journey back in time
when Native Americans lived free within
their tribes and Buffalo were numerous even in this part of the
continent...