Ivy Stover February 27, 2014 Mining and the Settlement of Socorro County Socorro County is a place of rich history. The area was named Socorro after the aid Don Juan de Oñate and his party of explorers received from the Teypana people when they traveled through the area in 1589. Missionaries stayed behind from the expedition and built the San Miguel Catholic church. Spanish families soon surrounded the mission, farming and ranching the land. However, during the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, settlers and
Early Texas May 30, 2010 Influential Hispanics of early Texas Many people that were indigenous to New Spain and latter, Mexico had settled in Texas when it was a northern State of Mexico. Many contributed in an effort to tame the wild paradise and bring civilization to the region beyond what the Spanish missionaries had begun a century before. In 1821, Mexico gained independence from Spain, and began to actively recruit people to populate the land north of the Rio Grande with
the Pueblo Revolt. Upon the Spanish retreat south it was believed that the Tiguas chose to flea with the Spanish Military. The truth of their migration south is somewhat different. The Tigua are direct descendants of the Pueblo Indians of Isleta, New Mexico. There name Tigua, or Tiwa, refers to the dialect that they speak. Long before they founded Isleta, however, they were the inhabitants of a much more spectacular home; the fabled city of Gran Quivira, the golden city that drew the interest of Coronado