Note the heavy wooden tripod that could be disassembled for transport. In 1540, Spanish conquistador Francisco Vázquez de Coronado set off from what is now central Mexico and entered the United ...

Chaos erupted Thursday as a gunshot rang out during a protest in northern New Mexico where officials had planned to install a statue of Spanish conquistador Juan de Oñate, an event that county ...

A man was shot Thursday during a protest against plans to reinstall a statue of a controversial Spanish conquistador in northern New Mexico, police say. Demonstrators were gathered in the city of ...

ESPANOLA, New Mexico, Sept 27 (Reuters) - A New Mexico county halted the reinstallation of a 16th-century Spanish conquistador statue on Wednesday after protests over the return of the bronze ...

A protester was wounded in a shooting during a demonstration against a plan to redisplay a statue of a controversial Spanish conquistador in the New Mexico city of Española on Thursday ...

Coronado was an adventurer and conquistador whose bold expedition in the Southwest explored an enormous swathe of territory. It eventually led to a new wave of expansion that added to the already ...

28 after chaos erupted and a single shot was fired at an outdoor gathering in Española over canceled plans to install a bronze likeness of conquistador Juan de Oñate, who is both revered and ...

BOSTON (AP) — A nearly 500-year-old manuscript signed by the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés in 1527 has been returned to the Archivo General de la Nación de México – Mexico’s ...

He envisions a stunning monument to Spanish conquistador Juan de Oñate that will honor the contributions Hispanic people made to building the American West. But as the project nears completion ...

Santa Fe Mayor Alan Webber expressed hopefulness Thursday as he unveiled a plan to try to end a long-running dispute over a statue of a Spanish conquistador whose role in history makes him both re ...