Most authorities believe his route led down the Canadian River from Texas to Oklahoma, cross-country to the Salt Fork, where he found the Escanjaque encampment, and then to the Arkansas River and its tributary, the Walnut River at Arkansas …

May 1, 1995 · This event, which took place at a site near that of present-day San Elizario, Texas (the river at that time ran several miles north of its present channel), is called La Toma, "the taking possession of"; it laid the foundation for more than two centuries of …

Feb 12, 2008 · Onate's Route On the Camino Real Marker. Inscription. Juan de Oñate, first governor of New Mexico, passed near here with his colonizing expedition in May, 1598. Traveling north, he designated official campsites (called parajes) on …

Halftone of Juan de Onate's map of New Mexico and Texas Description Photograph shows Juan de Onate's route to New Mexico and to the Arkansas/Canadian Rivers in 1598 and 1601.

Nov 4, 2010 · After many delays, Onate and his party of 400 men and members of their families left Santa Barbara, Mexico in January 1598. Instead of following the earlier routes, they crossed the Chihuahua desert to reach the El Paso area.

To celebrate the river crossing, in present-day Texas, he hosts a mass and invites the natives to join him and his troops in a thanksgiving meal. Today, this is known as the Texas Thanksgiving.

Most authorities believe his route led down the Canadian River from Texas to Oklahoma, cross-country to the Salt Fork, where he found the Escanjaque encampment, and then to the Arkansas River and its tributary, the Walnut River at Arkansas …

For the run to El Paso, you have your choice between I-10 or slower and more scenic Hwy-28, the Juan de Oñate Trail, which avoids the freeway and runs through the pecan groves, pepper fields, and dusty small towns that spread along the west bank of the Rio Grande.

Their trek led along the sand dunes of the Canadian River near Antelope Hills, east of the Texas Panhandle, and toward the modern-day city of Wichita, Kansas. After the Apache, Oñate encountered a tribe they called the Escanjaques, who at first seemed prepared to …

This map outlines the route followed by Oñate’s colonizing party in 1598. At a site on the Rio Grande that became known as El Paso del Norte, the group read the “requerimiento,” and performed other official actions of possession of the New Mexico territory.