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Taos

Place Type
inhabited place
Description
Located N New Mexico in Sangre de Cristo mountains; in 1680 Taos & other Pueblo Indians combined in successful Pueblo Revolt against Spain; in revolt of 1849 US governor Charles Brent was killed.
Authority
Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Source
Canby, Historic Places (1984); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);

Died

Beatrice Mandelman (American, 1912-1998)

Kenneth Price (American, 1935-2012)

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