John Baxter, who is an authority on much of the history of livestock in the American Southwest, calls Santa Fe “The Queen City of the Southwest.” It was the Southwest’s first major city and has thus remained one of the most wonderful. Various roads and trails came into Santa Fe from every direction, converging here in an area already inhabited by cultures that could trace their ancestries into deep antiquity through oral tradition and rock art. This area is known by people who live along the Northern Rio Grande in several different pueblos, including Santa Clara, San Ildefonso, San Juan, Tesuque, and other pueblos—as the Tewa World. The Tewa World was contained within four great peaks—to the west the peak of the Jemez Mountains, the peak to the north known as Canjilon, Truchas Peak in the Sangre de Cristos to the east, and Sandia or Turtle Mountain to the south.
