Taos

The panel's anti-U.S. insurrection was a rising by Hispano Taoseños and Taos Pueblo men against an army that had taken the province five months before. What followed was tried in Taos. A court with a jury drawn from the small Anglo community heard the captured rebels, and on April 9, 1847, six were hanged, among them Hipólito Salazar, convicted of high treason against the United States while New Mexico was still, by treaty, Mexican. Six Taos Pueblo men were hanged about the same time. In all the army hanged at least twenty-eight men at Taos.

What the plaque says

Official Scenic Historic Marker Taos Population 3369 - Elevation 6,983 The Spanish community of Taos developed two miles southwest of Taos Pueblo. It later served as a supply base for the "Mountain Men," and was the home of Kit Carson, who is buried here. Governor Charles Bent was killed here in the anti- U.S. insurrection of 1847. In the early 1900's, Taos developed as a colony for artists and writers.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Taos Pueblo — 1.7 mi
  Two terraced adobe houses facing each other across Red Willow Creek, lived in for something like a thousand years, with no electricity or running water inside the old walls.
• San Francisco de Asís Church, Ranchos de Taos — 5.7 mi
  The adobe church at Ranchos de Taos that artists always paint from behind, kept standing by the mud its parish spreads over it every June.
• Rio Grande Gorge Bridge — 9.2 mi
  A steel truss strung across a slot in the basalt west of Taos, 565 feet above the river by the careful measure and 650 by the signs, built when the road beyond it did not yet exist.

More markers nearby

• Kit Carson Memorial Cemetery — 2.0 mi
• Taos — 2.9 mi
• Taos Canyon — 4.7 mi
• San Francisco de Asis Church — 5.7 mi