The most important fact happened during his administration was a crisis of civil disobedience which he managed to defuse. Traders and explorers coming from the United States (Eastern states of modern United States) were being saw in Santa Fe, while the Nuevomexicanos and the Plains Indians, especially the Comanche people, were trading. Alencaster established measures to try to curb this trade. He only allowed the commercialization of a series of products by the Nuevomexicanos at the Chihuahua City fair, which was celebrated each year. In addition, Alencaster cancelled the sale of grain from Río Arriba (although the cereal constituted basic food supply for the presidio of Santa Fe), as well as sheep to the Navajo people. However, Miguel de Sandoval opposed the measures of Alencater and promoted the maintenance of traditional trade with the Comanches. The support to the Sandoval ideas by the inhabitants of the province caused a revolt against the Alencaster measurements. In midsummer of 1806, Real Alencaster organized an expedition to look for the Lewis and Clark explorers and capture them. About five hundred soldiers under Lieutenant Facundo Melgares were sent to the Missouri River. After six months of travel, Melgares reached the Missouri River, but never found Lewis and Clark. He was replaced as governor of New Mexico by Alberto Maynez in 1807. References External links Real Alencaster, Joaquin del to Abarca, Roque. Draft of a letter reporting his installment as governor of New Mexico and hopes to maintain good relations with Abarca Colonial governors of Santa Fe de Nuevo México