Taos
Taos,village in New Mexico, north of Santa Fe, was a leading commercial center of the Santa Fe Trail and the home of such scouts as Kit Carson. It is now known for its Taos Indian pueblo, the finest example of Indian architecture in the Southwest, probably built in the 17th century, and for its artist colony. Maxwell Anderson's play Night Over Taos deals with the downfall of Mexican rule there in 1847, and Kit Carson's home is described in Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop. Harvey Fergusson's Footloose McGarnigal (1930) is concerned with the artist colony, of which such members as Mabel Dodge Luhan also wrote. D.H. Lawrence was a resident (1922, 1924).
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