Antonio Armijo: Difference between revisions

Abiquiú was the starting point and terminaleastern terminus of the pioneeringoriginal route of the Old Spanish Trail]]. Though Thissegments firstof an overland route, between the [[ArmijoSpanish Routecolonies (Oldof SpanishNuevo Trail)|ArmijoMéxico Route]]and Alta California had been blazed decades earlier, Armijo was ledthe byfirst Antonioto Armijopioneer ofa [[Santacomplete Fe,route Newthat Mexico|Santatraveled Fe]],the entire length. Armijo traveled with a sixty mounted men and a caravan of pack animals carrying blankets and other trade goods to barter for mules in [[Alta California]]. Armijo'sThe caravan left Abiquiú on 7 November 6, 1829 and made the journey fromto Abiquiu tothe [[San Gabriel Mission]] in what is now [[San Gabriel, California]] in eighty-six days, arriving on January 31, January 1830. He returned by the same route in 56 days, leaving 1 March 1st and arriving back on 25 April 25, 1830. Unlike the other routes of the Old Spanish Trail, Armijo's route was documented day by day by him, although in a very brief report listing dates and stopping places, with few other details and no distances recorded. The Itreport was submitted to the governor of Nuevo México, [[José Antonio ChavesCháves]], and published by the Mexican government on 19 June 191830.<ref name=Armijo>[http://www.oldspanishtrail.org/assets/downloads/Armijo1830SpanishDiaryUNMRoneyDec09.pdf. Diario que formo yo el ciudando Antonio Armijo, como comandante, para el descubrimiento del camino para el punto de las Californias (Diary made by citizen Antonio Armijo as commandant for the discovery of the route to the Californias), Official Register of the Government the United States of Mexico, 1830, pp. 205–206] from Old Spanish Trail Association website, oldspanishtrail.org accessed 14 February 2016</ref><ref>[httphttps://www.jstor.org/stable/3816035 LeRoy R. Hafen and Antonio Armijo, Armijo's Journal,Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Nov., 1947), pp. 87-10187–101, Published by: University of California Press,DOI: 10.2307/3816035]</ref>

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* [http://www.solanohistory.org/record/856 PHOTO #: WY0002a, CAPTION: Antonio Mariano Armijo on horse Fuego (Smokey) 1851. This pencil sketch by J. Lundquist. Antonio Mariano is oldest son of Jose Francisco Armijo and; Jesus Maria Armijo. See also: Rulofson Coll. No. RR-244L Year: 1851] from solanohistory.org accessed 30 October 30, 2015.

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