From the journal of Lucious Lucullus Battle, M.D. on his trip westward from Memphis in 1849. “Our wagon went on to Santa Fe, where the United States had a garrison of soldiers. Santa Fe, I suppose, had at that time about five or six thousand inhabitants. The houses are nearly all one story high. There …

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