by Don Bullis
New Mexico’s Old Times & Old Timers
“The Pueblo Revolt of 1680”
By 1680 it had been 140 years since the first Spanish explorers led by Francisco Vázquez de Coronado spent the winters of 1540-41 and 1541-42 near the present day town of Bernalillo, New Mexico. That had not been a happy event for the Pueblo Indian people. They were the victims of a war Coronado waged against them—the Tiguex War—which took many Indian lives.… Read the rest