Santa Fe, the city that kept Billy the Kid in chains in the city jail and chained Gov. Lew Wallace to his desk so he could finish Ben-Hur, turns 400 years old this year. Well, sort of. Some historians say the 400th anniversary should have been two years earlier, because in 1608 Spanish Conquistadors moved south into what became known as La Villa Real de la Santa Fe de San Francisco de Asís, later shortened to Santa Fe. No, others argue, Europeans settled around there at least a year earlier.
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