José Romo de Vivar was a Novo Hispanic rancher and miner, an early European settler in
Arizona
Arizona is a U.S. state, state in the Southwestern United States, Southwestern region of the United States, sharing the Four Corners region of the western United States with Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah. It also borders Nevada to the nort ...
.
Biography
Vivar's grandfather was
Diego Romo de Vivar (1589–1691), a Spanish explorer and military officer who conquered a large part of present-day
Chihuahua.
[Enciclopedia heráldica y genealógica hispano-americana, Volume 80, By "A. Marzo, 1958."(Mexico)]
Vivar founded
San Lázaro ranch in the
Santa Cruz River valley, and raised
longhorn cattle across
Cananea, the southern
Huachuca Mountains, and the
San Rafael Valley.
Most Spanish settlers in Arizona left the area as the silver mines sold out and the local
Pima people
The Akimel O'odham (Oʼodham language, O'odham for "river people"), also called the Pima, are an Indigenous people of the Americas living in the United States in central and southern Arizona and northwestern Mexico in the states of Sonora and Ch ...
remained hostile, but Vivar remained.
[Martínez Laínez, Fernando and Canales Torres, Carlos. Banderas lejanas: La exploración, conquista y defensa por parte de España del Territorio de los actuales Estados Unidos (in Spanish: Far flags. The exploration, conquest and defense by Spain of the Territory of the present United States). pp. 145–46. Fourth edition: September 2009.]
References
External links
State of Arizona's Heritage Horse
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People from pre-statehood Arizona