Kyle Paoletta

Well, and speaking of New Mexico, part of the story there is Spanish colonialism where you have the Spanish first coming and coming in 1598 to create the permanent colony and then Santa Fe is established in 1610. This is 20 years before Boston is settled. This is before Jamestown. And you have this system where the Spanish crown is making vast land grants to Spanish settlers.

Well, and speaking of New Mexico, part of the story there is Spanish colonialism where you have the Spanish first coming and coming in 1598 to create the permanent colony and then Santa Fe is established in 1610. This is 20 years before Boston is settled. This is before Jamestown. And you have this system where the Spanish crown is making vast land grants to Spanish settlers.

And to this day, many of those land grants are still legally valid. And there are families who can trace back to the 17th century that there's this chain. But in New Mexico, it's possible to have these vast ranches. And I would bet good money that that rancher who you met, the origin of his ranch was probably as a Spanish land grant. Yeah. Yeah.

And to this day, many of those land grants are still legally valid. And there are families who can trace back to the 17th century that there's this chain. But in New Mexico, it's possible to have these vast ranches. And I would bet good money that that rancher who you met, the origin of his ranch was probably as a Spanish land grant. Yeah. Yeah.

And to this day, many of those land grants are still legally valid. And there are families who can trace back to the 17th century that there's this chain. But in New Mexico, it's possible to have these vast ranches. And I would bet good money that that rancher who you met, the origin of his ranch was probably as a Spanish land grant. Yeah. Yeah.

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Yeah, so I mentioned the cliff dwellings before that are in kind of the highlands of the Colorado Plateau. It's believed that many of the pueblos today are descended from those cliff dwellings, which were initially very defensible kind of positions, that they're in canyons and have very limited entry, but they also have pretty limited water.

Yeah, so I mentioned the cliff dwellings before that are in kind of the highlands of the Colorado Plateau. It's believed that many of the pueblos today are descended from those cliff dwellings, which were initially very defensible kind of positions, that they're in canyons and have very limited entry, but they also have pretty limited water.

Yeah, so I mentioned the cliff dwellings before that are in kind of the highlands of the Colorado Plateau. It's believed that many of the pueblos today are descended from those cliff dwellings, which were initially very defensible kind of positions, that they're in canyons and have very limited entry, but they also have pretty limited water.

If you visit Chaco Canyon today, you will very swiftly realize how dry it is. And so there were some periods of a special aridity that drove a lot of those people to the rivers. And so you have these dozens of villages along the Rio Grande and some of these tributaries. And they practice a style of agriculture that's somewhat similar to what's happening in the Sonoran Desert.

If you visit Chaco Canyon today, you will very swiftly realize how dry it is. And so there were some periods of a special aridity that drove a lot of those people to the rivers. And so you have these dozens of villages along the Rio Grande and some of these tributaries. And they practice a style of agriculture that's somewhat similar to what's happening in the Sonoran Desert.

If you visit Chaco Canyon today, you will very swiftly realize how dry it is. And so there were some periods of a special aridity that drove a lot of those people to the rivers. And so you have these dozens of villages along the Rio Grande and some of these tributaries. And they practice a style of agriculture that's somewhat similar to what's happening in the Sonoran Desert.

But I think the most important thing is that it's very flexible, that they'll have a pueblo, which if people are unfamiliar, is usually made out of adobe blocks, which is made of mud and straw. It's very much building with the materials of the place that you live in. And those are often quite far from the river or at a real remove from the river.

But I think the most important thing is that it's very flexible, that they'll have a pueblo, which if people are unfamiliar, is usually made out of adobe blocks, which is made of mud and straw. It's very much building with the materials of the place that you live in. And those are often quite far from the river or at a real remove from the river.

But I think the most important thing is that it's very flexible, that they'll have a pueblo, which if people are unfamiliar, is usually made out of adobe blocks, which is made of mud and straw. It's very much building with the materials of the place that you live in. And those are often quite far from the river or at a real remove from the river.

And then there are sort of irrigation canals and somewhat more temporary farms that acknowledge that there's going to be a flood eventually. All of this land will be submerged. There's no point in building a house here because it's going to get destroyed because it's made of mud. So many of the pueblos are actually a decent distance from the river.

And then there are sort of irrigation canals and somewhat more temporary farms that acknowledge that there's going to be a flood eventually. All of this land will be submerged. There's no point in building a house here because it's going to get destroyed because it's made of mud. So many of the pueblos are actually a decent distance from the river.

And then there are sort of irrigation canals and somewhat more temporary farms that acknowledge that there's going to be a flood eventually. All of this land will be submerged. There's no point in building a house here because it's going to get destroyed because it's made of mud. So many of the pueblos are actually a decent distance from the river.