Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
1994
Abstract
Poised at the gateway to the Great Plains, Pecos Pueblo-the people and the place-figured prominently throughout much of New Mexico's early history. It was once the mightiest of the eastern Pueblo city-states, but permanent Spanish settlement of New Mexico in 1598 signalled a protracted and unmistakable decline in fortunes that ultimately resulted in abandonment of Pecos by 1840. The story of conflict and cooperation between Pecos and its neighbors is fascinating, and John L. Kessell, a master of the narrative, weaves it skillfully into the rich warp of colonial New Mexico history.
Comments
Published in Great Plains Quarterly 14:1 (Winter 1994). Copyright © 1994 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.