Box-folder 1:11
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Juan Roland, Ranchos de Taos, to Alvarez, while at Bents Fort he met a Portuguese who had found a gold mine on one bank of the Napeste River and a silver mine on the other, about 25 miles north of the Fort., 1840 May 3
File — Box-Folder: 1:11, Reel-frame: 1:089
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
Collection consists primarily of Alvarez's business, consular, and personal correspondence. Correspondents include numerous officials, customers, merchants, and suppliers in New Mexico, St. Louis, New Orleans, New York, and London. Subjects discussed include the Santa Fe Trail, trade relations between the United States and New Mexico, and New Mexico politics and statehood. Items of note are five Alvarez ledgers (1834-1855), a journal of campsites along the Santa Fe Trail, a partial English copy...
Dates:
1840 May 3