Popular Elementary History of New Mexico

Download or read book Popular Elementary History of New Mexico written by Benjamin M. Read and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-13 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Popular Elementary History of New Mexico My chief purpose in the preparation of this brief popular history has been to enable the poor and the children of our State, especially those who are the descendants of the first explorers and conquerors, to partake of the interest and enthusiasm one experiences when reading of the marvelous deeds, the wonderful foresight, the peerless valor, and the sublime faith of the men who first visited, conquered, settled, and christianized this land of ours. No other State in the American Union has so romantic a history as has New Mexico. Yet this is the only State in the American sisterhood of states where her children have been made to learn all about the history of every other part of the world, but have learned nothing reliable, nothing accurate, about their own history; and what little has been taught in the schools of the country about New Mexico is so inaccurate that it would have been better to have said nothing about our State history than to have published inexcusable errors. Responsible writers and publishers have been, and still are, unintentionally propagating such errors in their school and popular histories. To illustrate, Barnes's Brief History of the United States (p. 29), writing of the discovery and naming of New Mexico and the founding of Santa Fe, makes the statement that "New Mexico was explored and named by Espejo (es pa ho) who (1582) founded Santa Fe." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.