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15 unusual facts about Taos


Adjuncts

One of the most popular American chile beers is produced by Eske's (aka Sangre de Cristo Brewing) in Taos, New Mexico.

Antonio Valverde y Cosío

One of the Apaches also said him that the French build two villages among the Amerindians Pawnee, west of the Missouri River, as big as Taos in New Mexico.

Cantonment Burgwin

Cantonment Burgwin (also known as Fort Burgwin) was a fort located at 10 miles (16 km) outside of Taos, Taos County, New Mexico, United States, southeast of Ranchos De Taos.

David Johns

Beginning in 1976, David's work has been exhibited at gallery shows all over the world, with many solo exhibitions including Navajo Tribal Museum, Window Rock, Arizona (1977); C.G. Rein Galleries, Santa Fe, New Mexico (1984); The Concord Place, Phoenix, Arizona (1987); Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos, New Mexico (1993); Palais de Nations, United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland (1999); and the Lanning Gallery, Sedona, Arizona (2006).

Earthship

Earthships are continually being built around the world by Taos based Earthship Biotecture.

Elk-Foot of the Taos Tribe

A coup stick would be carried by North Americans, but not by the Taos tribe.

Ferdinand Helias

Ferdinand Benoit Marie Guislain Helias d'Huddeghem (born in Ghent, Belgium, 3 August 1796; died in Taos, Cole County, Missouri, 11 August 1874) was a Roman Catholic clergyman who worked in Missouri.

Joseph Gale

As early as 1830, Joseph Gale had traveled the Santa Fe Trail from Missouri to Taos and was fur trapping in the southern Rocky Mountains.

Leon Gaspard

They eventually settled in Taos, New Mexico, though he continued to devote much of his time to traveling to paint in remote locations.

Gaspard found artistic success in Taos, which became an international art center during his lifetime, due to the presence of contemporary painters such as Joseph Henry Sharp and E. Irving Couse, and the founding of the Taos Society of Artists.

Mentor Williams

Williams built a home overlooking Taos, New Mexico, which he shares with his long-time partner, country music singer Lynn Anderson.

Robert Bright

At the urging of friend Frieda Lawrence, Bright moved with his wife, Katherine, and two young children to Taos, New Mexico in 1938.

Roger Sanders

Since then he has left the practice and is currently working part time at the Los Alamos Women's Clinic and the Taos Women's Health Institute as well as being Clinical Professor at New Mexico University and Research professor at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Roxanne Swentzell

Roxanne Swentzell was born on December 9, 1962 in Taos, New Mexico, a Pueblo located in a tributary valley off the Rio Grande.

Taos, Missouri

Taos is also the home of former major league baseball relief pitcher, Tom Henke (known in his playing days as "The Terminator") who won the 1992 World Series with the Toronto Blue Jays and, in the final season of his career, pitched for the St. Louis Cardinals.


Art Academy of Cincinnati

Joseph Henry Sharp, (1873-1892), was one of the six founding members of the "Taos Society of Artists".

Charles H. Beaubien

After Sterling Price put down the rebellion, Beaubien was to be the judge to overseeing the trial of his son's murderers prompting Father Martinez to accuse him of "endeavoring to kill all the people of Taos."

Cordelia Wilson

The show featured easel works by George Bellows, Robert Henri, F. Martin Hennings, and Leon Kroll, who were working in the Southwest at that time, along with the "Taos Six" (Oscar E. Berninghaus, Ernest Blumenschein, Irving Couse, Herbert Dunton, Bert Geer Phillips, and Joseph Henry Sharp) and other members of the Taos Society.

Dangermuffin

Dangermuffin has performed at some of the largest attended music festivals in the United States, including Wanee Music Festival in Florida, moe.down in New York, Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion in Tennessee, Taos Mountain Music Festival in New Mexico, Summer Camp Music Festival in Illinois, FloydFest in Virginia, Jazz Aspen in Colorado, and All Good Music Festival in Masontown, West Virginia.

Dulah Marie Evans

(A wealthy heiress from New York, Mabel Dodge Luhan transformed Taos, New Mexico, into an artist colony in the 1920s and 30s by inviting such noted artists as Georgia O'Keeffe and D. H. Lawrence to join her in the town's idyllic setting, which she considered to be the center for cultural and spiritual salvation.)

Ed Yost

On May 27, 2007, Yost died of a heart attack at the age of 87 at his home in Vadito, near Taos, New Mexico.

Edward W. B. Newby

His command maintained detachments at various times at Taos, Abiquiu, Mora, Las Vegas, Galisteo, Albuquerque, Cebolleta, Tome, and Socorro until the war's end.

El Prado

El Prado, New Mexico, an unincorporated suburb of Taos, Taos County, New Mexico, USA

Emilio Delgado

Some of his New York theatre credits include Floating Home (HExTC), Boxing 2000 (Richard Maxwell NYC Players), Dismiss All the Poets (New York Fringe Festival 2002), Nilo Cruz's adaptation of A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (Shakespeare Theatre of NJ), Dinosaurios (IATI), Night Over Taos (INTAR) and an adaptation of How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (Round House Theatre).

Francisco Gomes

In addition, in his role as encomendero, Gomes was honored in at least eight Village communities, among which were Pecos (current Texas), Tesuque, Taos and Watermelon.

Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art

The Fleischaker Collection, a large collection of more than 350 pieces of Native American and southwestern paintings, sculpture and ceramics, including some of the most famous works by Russian Taos painters Leon Gaspard and Nicolai Fechin.

George McJunkin

Hillerman, T. "Othello in Union County", The Great Taos Bank Robbery, 1973.

Gregory Mertl

He has been full-time Visiting Artist of Composition at the Setnor School of Music at Syracuse University (2008-2010) and has been composer-in-residence at Yaddo, Château de La Napoule in France, the Fundación Valparaiso in Spain, the Helen Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, New Mexico, the Ragdale Foundation, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the I-Park Artists Enclave in East Haddam, CT, and the Chamber Music Festival of the East at Bennington College in Vermont.

Hennings

Ernest Martin Hennings (1886–1956), American painter, member of Taos Society of Artists

Isaac Slover

He was one of the first trappers to take up formal residence at Taos, New Mexico.

Jay T. Wright

His first feature film, 'Assembling the World' (16 mm, 1995), made when he was only 20 years old, follows cultures under the pressures of colonialism after the fall out of war in Taos Pueblo and Belfast and features the Very Large Array radio telescope in New Mexico.

Joe P. Martinez

In 1927, his father, who was an agricultural laborer, decided to move from Taos, New Mexico to Ault, Colorado.

Juan Mirabal

Mirabal studied in the late 1940s with Louis Leon Ribak, a Taos modernist painter who ran an art school after the end of World War II.

Kenneth J. Gergen

He is currently a Senior Research Professor at Swarthmore, the Chairman of the Board of the Taos Institute, and an adjunct professor at Tilburg University.

Mack Reynolds

After searching for a place with a low cost of living, they moved to Taos, New Mexico, where Reynolds met science fiction writers Walt Sheldon and Fredric Brown.

Marcelino Baca

A native of Taos, Baca first learned beaver trapping while accompanying American groups, as the Spanish government required Mexican citizens to accompany any foreign commercial operation.

Nata Piaskowski

During the 1980s, she also photographed in New York, Washington D.C., Santa Fe and Taos as well as Death Valley and Yosemite Valley.

New Mexico Highlands University

There are also many other branch campuses, including in Santa Fe, Farmington, Taos, Raton, Rio Rancho and Espanola.

SKX

Taos Regional Airport (FAA LID: SKX), a public use airport near Taos, New Mexico, United States

Taiwanese–American Occultation Survey

TAOS is a joint effort of Academia Sinica, Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, The Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, National Central University, Institute of Astronomy and Yonsei University, South Korea.

Taos Amrouche

Marie-Louise-Taos Amrouche (4 March 1913 in Tunis, Tunisia - 2 April 1976 in Saint-Michel-l'Observatoire, France) was an Algerian writer and singer.

Taos Pueblo

Mexican Pablo Montoya and Tomasito, a leader at Taos Pueblo, led a force of Mexicans and Indians who did not want to become a part of the United States.

Taos Pueblo, New Mexico

Taos Pueblo is the only living Native American community designated both a World Heritage Site by UNESCO and a National Historic Landmark.

Taos Talking Pictures Film Festival

The Taos Talking Pictures Film Festival ran from 1994 to 2003 with a peak budget of $750,000 in 2002 and attracted Hollywood stars like Elizabeth Taylor, James Coburn and Julia Roberts.

Travis Parkin

In 1991, Parkin teamed up with fellow Taos resident and internationally known songwriter and producer, Mentor Williams (Drift Away), to write “The Last Time,” a contemporary country ballad purchased by Warner Bros. for a Vince Gill and Patty Loveless duet album that was later scrapped.