#16 A close-up view of a Spanish inscription carved into the sandstone at Inscription Rock in New Mexico in 1726. Translation: “By this place passed Ensign Don Joseph de Payba Basconzelos, in the year in which he held the Council of the Kingdom at his expense, on the 18th of February, in the year 1726.”

Capturing the Untamed Land: Timothy H. O’Sullivan’s Remarkable Images of the American West in the Late 1800s

#16 A close-up view of a Spanish inscription carved into the sandstone at Inscription Rock in New Mexico in 1726. Translation: “By this place passed Ensign Don Joseph de Payba Basconzelos, in the year in which he held the Council of the Kingdom at his expense, on the 18th of February, in the year 1726.”

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