Taos, NM
August 20, 2026
Joseph Field’s Taos, A Romance of the Massacre , printed in St. Louis in 1847 and sold for ten cents, is identified as the first work of fiction on a New Mexico subject. Published under the pen name “Everpoint,” the slim booklet dramatized the Taos uprising of January 1847, including the killing of…
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