SAN LUIS

NAME: SAN LUIS COUNTY: SANDOVAL ROADS: 2WD GRID: 1 CLIMATE: Keep your eye on rain clouds and watch the low places. BEST TIME TO VISIT: Any time

COMMENTS: SAN LUIS. A small ranching settlement on NM 279, 20 mi W of Jemez.This little settlement, as were many others along the Rio Puerco, were self sufficient little communities, with their own laws, and customs. If you were a friend to one family, you were generally accepted by the rest of the community.On the other hand, if you were not liked by any one of the community, you were probably not accepted by the rest of the town. The word "clannish" would fit here. REMAINS: Buildings and ruins.

SAN LUIS. The name commerates St. Louis IX, King of France in the thirteenth century, the son of Louis VII and Blanche of Castile. SAN LUIS OBISPO. Socorro County. St. Louis, Franciscan bishop of Toulouse in the thirteenth century, and a grandnephew of King St. Louis. He was reared in Spain and chosen patron of the seventeenth-century pueblo of Sevilleta.SAN LUIS PASS. Hidalgo County. SAN LUIS REY. Valencia County. "St. Louis, King". Submitted by: BILL and ELINOR SMITH

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