Degree Year
2018
Document Type
Thesis - Open Access
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
History
Advisor(s)
Tamika Nunley
Danielle Terrazas
Committee Member(s)
Leonard V. Smith, Chair
Keywords
Nuevo Mexicano, Hispanic, New Mexico, Nineteenth century, US Civil War, Jose Francisco Chavez, Nicolas Pino, Microhistory, US-Mexican War, New Mexican society, Hispanic American, Spanish American
Abstract
This thesis reconstructs the lives of two elite Hispanic New Mexican men who grappled with upheavals on the North American continent during the nineteenth century. Union army officers and influential patrones Nicolás Pino (1820-1896) and José Francisco Chavez (1833-1904) serve as the center of this paper’s narrative chronological historical analysis. Intensive primary source work in the New Mexico State Archives reveals their footprints in the military, political, and legal spheres before, during, and after the war. The biographies of Chavez and Pino serve as a microcosm of the changes and continuities in Nuevo Mexicano social, cultural, and military practices during these turbulent years, revealing historical moments as they were lived by individuals. Their responses to American Indian conflicts, shifting borders, fluid borderlands identities, two international wars, and the penetration of Anglo-Americans into the territory reveal how two members of the elite Hispanic New Mexican community worked to maintain their elite status in the face of massive change.
Repository Citation
Hannigan, Isabel, ""Overrun All This Country..." Two New Mexican Lives Through the Nineteenth Century" (2018). Honors Papers. 156.
https://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/honors/156
