Cloudcroft, New Mexico’s mayor recently declared the village “Christmas Capital of New Mexico.” “At Christmastime, we celebrate goodwill, generosity, neighborly spirit, ...

Bugs & Mice. In 1595 the Viceroy of New Spain (Mexico) granted a wealthy mining man named Don Juan de Oñate the right to found, at his own expense, a colony on the upper Rio Grande in what is now ...

Santa Fe was established in the early 17th-century and in 1610 became the capital of what was then the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo Mexico, part of Spanish-ruled New Spain.