By RICH GRANT The word “Tejano” has slipped into the American language, meaning someone of Mexican descent living in Texas. There’s Tejano food, music and culture. But the phrase, “Neomexicanos,” not so much. For one thing, there were simply not that many of these people – the Spanish and Mexican colonists who ventured into Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado
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By RICH GRANT and SID WILSON One of the great ironies of recent history is the talk about the need for a “wall” between the United States and Mexico. In 1829, there was a legitimate need for this wall. Not to keep people out of the United States, but to keep them in! That was because, in 1829, Mexico offered
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By RICH GRANT SAN LUIS VALLEY, Colorado – The young Spanish priest felt his wound where the arrow had gone in, and realized he was dying. His comrades fired a few more shots at the fleeing Indians, then laid the priest down on a patch of sand facing the mountains to the east. The peaks were blood red with the
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