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| Artist’s depiction of La Junta natives standing atop the walls of their flat-topped pueblo to watch the arrival of Spanish explorers. According to explorer Hernán Gallegos, the narrator of the Rodríguez-Chamuscado expedition who reached La Junta in 1581, the villagers greeted them with "great merriment." Drawing by Hal Story, from W.W. Newcomb's 1961 book Indians of Texas. Newcomb used this drawing to illustrate the Jumano, but according to Gallegos, the groups living at La Junta that were encountered by the Spanish entrada included the “Conchos,” “Patarabueyes,” and “Amotomancos.” |