which was the first country to send an explorer to the new world
President Polk offered to buy New Mexico and California from Mexico.
The yucca flower, selected by New Mexico schoolchildren and supported by the New Mexico Federation of Women's Clubs, was approved by the eighth regular session of the legislature of New Mexico. House Bill No. 371, naming the "Yucca flower" the "official Flower of the State of New Mexico" was adopted on March 14, 1927. This information was found on the State of New Mexico's website. From my perspective, when you drive though New Mexico you can frequently see Yuccas in bloom.
California and New Mexico
Oklahoma (1907), New Mexico (1912), Arizona (1912), Alaska (1959), and Hawaii (1959) were admitted into the union during the 20th century.
Hernando DeSoto came calling in 1541
Hernan Cortes
Zebulon pike
Spanish explorer Francisco de Ibarra (1539?-1575) named these lands as "a new Mexico" (literal translation: un nuevo Mexico) in 1563.
Texas, New Mexico and Arizona.
The driving distance from Calgary, Alberta, Canada to Albuquerque, New Mexico is 1541 miles via I-25 S per MapQuest. The driving time per MapQuest is 21 hours and 46 minutes.
French
John Morrow - New Mexico - died in 1935.
The first explorer to discover New Mexico was Spanish Conquistador Francisco Vazquez de Coronado.
His second expedition was for a port that could supply New Mexico from Spain.
In her home in New Mexico.
Credit is given to Francisco de Ibarra, an explorer and prospector for first using that name is 1563 and it became official when Juan de Onate was appointed the first governor of the Province of New Mexico in 1598.