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Another Time in This Place

Historia, Cultura y Vida en Questa NM

  • About This Site
  • Table of Contents
    • An Introductory Note
    • Preface & Acknowledgments
    • A History Of Questa
      • The Founders of Questa, by J.P. Rael
      • Don Diego Vigil
      • Floyd Hamblen
      • A New Frontier
    • From the Record
      • Ancient Geological Events Formed Our Landscape
      • Before the Spanish Entrada
      • The Spanish Entrada and Northern New Spain
      • Outside Influences
      • Vecinos on the Northern Frontier
      • The Cañon del Rio Colorado Land Grant
      • The San Antonio del Rio Colorado Land Grant
      • The U.S. Army of West Arrives in New Mexico
      • John “The Pathfinder” Fremont Comes to Rio Colorado
      • Indians Depredations on Rio Colorado Continue
      • More Arrivals and Visitors in Rio Colorado
      • Mineral Resources Are Found Near Rio Colorado
      • The Indian Threat Ends
      • The Railroad Comes to Northern New Mexico
      • Petitions to Validate the Cañon del Rio Colorado Land Grant
      • New Mining in and around Questa
      • The 20th Century Comes to Questa
    • The Cycle of Birth, Life, and Death
      • El Oratorio de Doña Estefana
      • Los Hermanos, La Morada y el Calvario
      • Our Church of San Antonio
      • Baptism
      • Customs for betrothal and marriage
      • Holidays
      • Death
  • Contact
  • About This Site
  • Table of Contents
    • An Introductory Note
    • Preface & Acknowledgments
    • A History Of Questa
      • The Founders of Questa, by J.P. Rael
      • Don Diego Vigil
      • Floyd Hamblen
      • A New Frontier
    • From the Record
      • Ancient Geological Events Formed Our Landscape
      • Before the Spanish Entrada
      • The Spanish Entrada and Northern New Spain
      • Outside Influences
      • Vecinos on the Northern Frontier
      • The Cañon del Rio Colorado Land Grant
      • The San Antonio del Rio Colorado Land Grant
      • The U.S. Army of West Arrives in New Mexico
      • John “The Pathfinder” Fremont Comes to Rio Colorado
      • Indians Depredations on Rio Colorado Continue
      • More Arrivals and Visitors in Rio Colorado
      • Mineral Resources Are Found Near Rio Colorado
      • The Indian Threat Ends
      • The Railroad Comes to Northern New Mexico
      • Petitions to Validate the Cañon del Rio Colorado Land Grant
      • New Mining in and around Questa
      • The 20th Century Comes to Questa
    • The Cycle of Birth, Life, and Death
      • El Oratorio de Doña Estefana
      • Los Hermanos, La Morada y el Calvario
      • Our Church of San Antonio
      • Baptism
      • Customs for betrothal and marriage
      • Holidays
      • Death
  • Contact

Appendix

Additional Reading

Appendix

Questa area timeline

Appendix

19th and early 20th Century Questa Names

Appendix

Early 1800s to the present

The Ortega Family

Appendix

Rael family history

Appendix

"It is very certain, or almost certain, that only one Rael came to the New Continent and that he came as a soldier from Spain and that is how the name Rael originated."

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  • Front Matter
  • The Cycle of Birth, Life, and Death
  • Everyday Life in the 1920's to 1940's
  • Appendix
  • A Hisrory of Questa
    • From the Record
    • From Our Hearts and Minds

Acknowlegments

We are grateful to following people and organizations, who were extremely helpful in producing this work:

Nita Murphy, The Southwest Research Center of Northern New Mexico, Taos
Sandra Jaramillo and staff, New Mexico State Records Center and Archives
Esteban Rael-Galvez, New Mexico State Historian
Museums of New Mexico Library
Taos Public Library
Moby Dickens Bookstore, Taos
Carol Rael for translations

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