Fleming Community Library

As early as 1851, photographers journeyed along the arduous Santa Fe Trail on horseback and in covered wagons on a quest to capture the magnificent vistas on film. In the ever-changing light of New Mexico's landscape, they photographed the faces of the Pueblo People and helped to document their ancient, unimaginable world. They became witness to millennia of history. New Mexico's first inhabitants are believed to have descended from the Anasazi, the...

Explores the trade routes followed by Native Americans, trappers, and traders between the late sixteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, looks at the types of goods traded, and includes illustrations, photographs, and maps.