En el camino andamos… Ley contra salteadores de caminos de 1848, Querétaro

Abstract

The Camino Real de Tierra Adentro allowed the development of a large economic and cultural complex. Undoubtedly, the patrimonial inheritance that constituted the silver extraction route contributed to the establishment of places such as estancias, inns, sales, sentry boxes and farms that today make up an important built heritage legacy, but above all it was a space for cultural exchange when traveling for him people from various places. In the section of the road that corresponds to Queretaro, there was growth of farms that, in turn, were the articulating center of community development. As in any time and place, criminal crimes also took place in those spaces. In this sense, this article aims to recover the road not only in material terms, but also in geographical terms and one of the aspects that are built around it: criminality, through the Law against highway robbers of 1848 and the processes that were carried out in this regard, documentation found in the Historical Archive of the Judicial Power of Queretaro.