Word: gabriel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beneath the cornfields of an Indian pueblo, diligent diggers last week worked to uncover a half-forgotten chapter of U.S. history. Led by Professor Florence Ellis of the University of New Mexico, 60 student archaeologists are bringing to light the long lost site of San Gabriel de Yunque, first capital of New Mexico. It was founded in 1598-ten years before the first permanent English settlement in America at Jamestown, Va., and 22 years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth...
...chased the Indians out of Yuque and moved in, renaming the place San Juan de los Caballeros (St. John of the Gentlemen) and declaring it the capital of the new colony. A short time later, they shifted to the other pueblo across the river; they named that one San Gabriel de Yunque...
...doors in the blank adobe walls of the first-floor rooms, which the Indians had entered through the ceilings. In the first few weeks they built and consecrated a makeshift church and laid out a plaza in the conventional Spanish fashion. Buildings gradually grew around the plaza. But San Gabriel de Yunque did not thrive. Its settlers were plagued by bedbugs and lice, and their crops were destroyed by field mice. After failing to find gold or other valuable minerals, Oñate left his colony. The capital was moved to Santa Fe, the buildings crumbled, and when the Indians...
...full swing. The foundations of more buildings are showing through the soil, and with them appear fragments of glass that may have been parts of medicine bottles that the Spanish colonists carried with them into the wilderness. Nothing spectacular or beautiful is likely to be found, for San Gabriel was the crudest sort of frontier foothold. But enough has been located already to bring to life the days when the armored conquistadors rode up the great river from Mexico...
...small dailies, the tendency today is to form into an "intercity" paper?a single daily replacing two or more in neighboring towns. Today there are more than 70 such papers, some of them with sizable circulations: the Herald-News, serving Passaic and Clifton, N.J. (circ. 74,227); the San Gabriel Valley (Calif.) Tribune in West Covina spreads its 52,152 circulation over seven neighboring towns...