On February 2, 1848, officials from the United States and the Republic of Mexico signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo at Guadalupe Hidalgo, a city north of the capital where the Mexican government fled with the advance of U.S. forces, thus ending the ...
Late in the summer of 1670, five traders crossed what is now called the Jornada del Muerto on their way to present-day Chihuahua. One of them strayed from the group and soon called out that he had found human remains. After taking a look, one of the men ...