{"id":1921,"date":"2022-10-25T11:59:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T18:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.russbishop.com\/blog\/?p=1921"},"modified":"2022-10-25T12:24:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T19:24:38","slug":"pecos-national-historic-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/pecos-national-historic-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Pecos National Historic Park"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kiva ladder and fire pit, Pecos Pueblo, Pecos National Historic Park, New Mexico<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nestled in the lower slopes of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains 25 miles southeast of Santa Fe, Pecos National Historic Park encompasses the remains of one of the largest and most influential Native American pueblos in the region. Long before Coronado and Spanish influence arrived in 1540, this pueblo village was the major confluence of trade between the people of the Rio Grande Valley and the hunting tribes of the buffalo plains.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0rich mixture of history and culture at Pecos also includes the Santa Fe Trail and the Civil War Battle ground\u00a0at Glorieta Pass, where the Confederacy’s last hopes of\u00a0taking the goldfields of Colorado and California\u00a0vanished. Today the park is far enough from the interstate and the bustle of Santa Fe that the only sound\u00a0is the wind whispering through\u00a0its adobe walls like spirits from the past.<\/p>\n

It’s easy to forget\u00a0that\u00a0for centuries this was a major\u00a0crossroads of North America and with over 12, 000 years of history preserved, it really is one of the hidden gems of the National Park System.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9Russ Bishop\/All Rights Reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nestled in the lower slopes of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains 25 miles southeast of Santa Fe, Pecos National Historic Park encompasses the remains of one of the largest and most influential Native American pueblos in the region. Long before Coronado and Spanish influence arrived in 1540, this pueblo village was the major confluence of … <\/p>\n

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