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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...