Pecos National Historic Park is located on a stretch of land where people have lived since 800 A.D. The Pecos Pueblo became a very large city in the period preceding Spanish arrival in the Southwest. Coronado made his way through Pecos looking for riches. A Puebloan guide was given to him, but led his men onto the great plains hoping they would die from heat and starvation or at the hands of the Apaches. Coronado returned and wreaked havoc on the people of Pecos. Next came the Missionaries. The Mission dates from an exceptionally aggressive period of mission building in the southwest, in the early 1600s. The over zealous Spanish did not succeed in their conquest of the Puebloan People, but Pecos was deserted by the 1830s, with the last people moving north to Jemez Pueblo. See the rest of my photos here.
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