Editing Doña Ana, New Mexico (section)

==History==
Doña Ana is named for Doña Ana Robledo, who died there in 1680 while fleeing the [[Pueblo Revolt]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Doña Ana Historical Marker|url=https://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=38176|publisher=The Historical Marker Database|accessdate=June 3, 2018|df=mdy-all}}</ref> In 1846, the British traveler [[George Frederick Ruxton]] passed through Doña Ana near the eastern bank of the [[Rio Grande]] River. He said, "Doña Ana is a very recent settlement of ten or fifteen families, who, tempted by the richness of the soil, abandoned their farms in the valley of [[El Paso]], and have here attempted to cultivate a small tract of land in the very midst of the [[Apache]]s, who have already paid them several visits and carried off or destroyed their stock of cattle. The huts are built of log and mud, and situated on the top of a tabular bluff which looks down upon the river bottom"<ref name="Ruxton">{{cite book |last1=Ruxton |first1=George Frederick |title=Wild Life in the Rocky Mountains |date=1916 |publisher=MacMillian Company |location=New York |url=https://user.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/html/ruxton.html#ch1 |access-date=4 May 2024}}</ref>