Albuquerque
Special Collection Library
423
Central NE
Albuquerque,
NM
(On
the corner of Central and Edith)
Saturday,
July 21, 2012
10:30
AM – Noon
The
Albuquerque Special Collections Library
and
The New
Mexico Genealogical Society
Present
¡Más Allá!
Don Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco and the 18th-Century Kingdom of New Mexico
From his baptism in northern Spain in 1713 to his marriage in 1741 to Estefanía Domínguez de Mendoza in Chihuahua, we know virtually nothing about Miera y Pacheco. Yet by the time he died in Santa Fe in 1785 he had expressed himself artistically more notably, worn more hats, drawn more maps, knew more Indians, and explored more of the Kingdom and Provinces of New Mexico than any vecino before or after him. He embodied the very soul of eighteenth-century Hispanic New Mexico.
From his baptism in northern Spain in 1713 to his marriage in 1741 to Estefanía Domínguez de Mendoza in Chihuahua, we know virtually nothing about Miera y Pacheco. Yet by the time he died in Santa Fe in 1785 he had expressed himself artistically more notably, worn more hats, drawn more maps, knew more Indians, and explored more of the Kingdom and Provinces of New Mexico than any vecino before or after him. He embodied the very soul of eighteenth-century Hispanic New Mexico.
John Kessell, professor emeritus at
the University of New Mexico, has written numerous books and articles regarding
Spanish Colonial history. Some of which
are: Kiva,
Cross, & Crown, Spain in the
Southwest, and Pueblos, Spaniards, and the Kingdom of New Mexico. In addition to which, he was the primary
editor on the Vargas Project, a multi volume work of the correspondence of Don
Diego de Vargas and the reconquest of NM.
For more
information about our programs, check out the New Mexico Genealogical Society’s
website at www.nmgs.org.
This program is free and open to the public
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