Early records --
Villages --
The massacre of 1760 --
Taos fairs --
One hundred years ago --
Trails --
Bent's fort --
Trappers --
A Taos becomes governor --
The Texas-Santa Fe expedition --
Whitman's ride --
Kearny and Bent --
The revolution of 1847 --
The trail --
Lewis H. Garrard's visit --
Padre Martinez --
Richard H. Kern's diary --
Courts --
More cases --
The fifties --
The Civil War --
After the war --
Schools and processions --
Diggin's --
Amizett and Twining --
La Belle and Elizabethtown --
Miners' tales --
1898 --
An artist in trouble --
Forest fire --
Events the year round --
Christmas day --
The Penitentes --
The celebration in 1925 --
The Taos art colony --
Taos today.

This story of Taos, New Mexico covers some four centuries of history. It is the story of a village that never gave up despite periods of drought, violence from unfriendly Indians and other hazards of frontier life. At one time, Taos was even the site of a short-lived but bloody rebellion against the United States government. Grant tells this and other fascinating true stories of a settlement that was home to trappers and explorers and later to artists and writers. Among its famous and best-known citizens was the mountain man, Kit Carson.

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