Taos
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- Names
Taos
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located N New Mexico in Sangre de Cristo mountains; in 1680 Taos & other Pueblo Indians combined in successful Pueblo Revolt against Spain; in revolt of 1849 US governor Charles Brent was killed.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Canby, Historic Places (1984); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
- Died
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