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El Rito History – A Project of the El Rito Library
Overview of the History of El Rito
Joaquín García and the beginnings of modern El Rito
Timeline Of The History of El Rito
The Dangerous Frontier
Earliest Documented Marriages for El Rito
The Families Who Built El Rito
Early Agriculture in the Region
Raids and Slaves
The History of the Building Now Housing the Library
The Jaramillo House
History of Dining In El Rito
The Tewa Indians
A Day at Sapawe, Circa 1450
What Do Archaeologists Do?
The Plazas and the Spiritual
Farming in a Difficult Land
Hunting and Pottery
Clothing, Children and Pottery
A Network of Villages
The Sapawe Pueblo Ruins
What Happened to Sapawe?
Movement of the 1960s
How The Counterculture Changed El Rito
El Rito in the Sixties: When Two Worlds Met.
Wavy Gravy In El Rito
Remembering 1970
The SPMDTU In El Rito
Martin's Store
San Juan Nepomuceno
The El Rito School
A Second Great-Grandfather Remembered
People
Marriage and Family Traditions
Donaciano Montoya
Pedro Jaramillo
Colonel Venceslao Jaramillo
Monsignor Jerome Martinez y Alire
Geronimo Garcia
Nicholas Herrera
Cipriano Vigil
Betsy McIntosh
Margaret Allen Martin
David Michael Kennedy
Cleofas M. Jaramillo
Ernestine Durán Evans
Peter van Dresser
Walter Chappell
Land Grant Issues
El Rito and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Jesús María Vigil
George W. Julian
Land Grant Disputes Continue
La Mano Negra
The Courthouse Raid
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