Image: Third Montezuma Hot Springs Hotel, near Las Vegas, New Mexico, c. 1890s

Description: Third Montezuma Hot Springs Hotel, near Las Vegas, New Mexico, c. 1890s. Text below image: This hotel, the Montezuma, was built by the Santa Fe Railroad Company, at a cost of $400,000. Its predecessor, the Phoenix,was burned but a few years ago. The house is all that is claimed for it, and had twenty-five guests, paying $18 per week and upward, among whom we found friends who greeted us 20 PIOMEERS OF 49. warmly and gave us much valuable information. We walked along the banks of the Rio Gallinas, which flows through a picturesque canyon from the Spanish range of the Rocky Mountains. From Las Vegas we ride through an undulating plateau. In the gathering darkness westrain our eyes to get a faint view of Starvation Mountain, where a band of Indians surrounded and vanquished by hunger 140 Mexicans; of Glorieta Pass, where a sharp fight occurred early in the Rebellion.
Title: Third Montezuma Hot Springs Hotel, near Las Vegas, New Mexico, c. 1890s
Credit: Image from page 40 of "The pioneers of '49. A history of the excursion of the Society of California pioneers of New England" (1891)
Author: Internet Archive Book Images
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