New Mexico

New Mexico History Museum Opens

May 14, 2009

The doors of the newly created New Mexico History Museum in Santa Fe will open to the public for the first time May 24, 2009, during Memorial Day weekend. The state-of-the-art, immersive, interactive exhibition about New Mexico’s complex and colorful stories will forever banish the notion of history as boring and un-engaging. The museum’s multi-media [...]

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Historic Trips for Families

December 22, 2008

Your kids may have heard about the Oregon Trail, but have you taken them to stand in those wagon wheel tracks in Wyoming (photo at right)? So many wagons traversed West that the tracks are deep enough for an adult person to stand in. Even as an adult I was awe stuck by this fact; [...]

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Ft. Union, New Mexico, on the Santa Fe Trail

December 8, 2008

Fort Union was established in 1851 as the guardian of the Santa Fe Trail. During it’s forty-year history, three different forts were constructed close together. The third Fort Union was the largest in the American Southwest, and functioned as a military garrison, territorial arsenal, and military supply depot for the southwest. The largest visible network [...]

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