white sands national monument Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/white-sands-national-monument Mon, 30 May 2016 13:14:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 New Mexico Vacations http://toursmaps.com/new-mexico-vacations.html http://toursmaps.com/new-mexico-vacations.html#respond Fri, 03 Jun 2016 18:25:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=204956 New Mexico Legends Like folk medicine, local lore and oral traditions were always very strong in New Mexico. This was due to the lack of a printing press and to the nature of settlement patterns and literacy rates. Before the twentieth century, literacy was low throughout New Spain and Spain, and so the oral telling of stories and passing on of legends always had an important role in popular culture in the Hispanic world. New Mexico fell squarely within this tradition, and given its isolation and the relative difficulty in acquiring books and building large libraries, oral traditions took on

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