The Grant That Maxwell Bought

The Grant That Maxwell Bought
Author: F. Stanley
Publisher: Sunstone Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2008
Genre: Colorado
ISBN: 0865346526

In this volume, published originally in an edition of 250 numbered and signed copies, Stanley (Father Stanley Francis Louis Crocchiola) takes on the task of telling the complex story of the Maxwell Land Grant.

Translating Property

Translating Property
Author: Maria E. Montoya
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2002-03-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0520227441

Although Mexico lost its northern territories to the US in 1948 battles over property rights have remained intense. This text shows how contending groups reinterpret the meaning of property to uphold their conflicting claims to land.

Inherit the Sun

Inherit the Sun
Author: Maxwell Grant
Publisher: Charnwood
Total Pages: 610
Release: 1983-01-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780708981399

Frank Springer and New Mexico

Frank Springer and New Mexico
Author: David L. Caffey
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2007-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781603440042

The country Frank Springer rode into in 1873 was one of immense beauty and abundant resources - grass and timber, wild game, precious metals, and a vast bed of commercial-grade coal. It was also a stage upon which dramatic and sometimes violent events played out. A lawyer and newspaperman for the Maxwell Land Grant company and a foe of the speculators known as ""the Santa Fe Ring,"" Springer found himself in the middle of the Colfax County War. A man of many sides, he typified the Gilded Age entrepreneurs who transformed the territorial American Southwest. As president of the Maxwell Land Grant company, Springer led in the development of mining, logging, ranching, and irrigation enterprises. His Supreme Court victory establishing title to the 1.7 million acre Maxwell grant earned him a reputation as a brilliant attorney.

Roadside New Mexico

Roadside New Mexico
Author: David Pike
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780826331182

The people, geological features, and historic events that have made New Mexico what it is today are commemorated in over 350 historic markers along the state's roads. This guide is designed to fill in the gaps and answer the questions those markers provoke.

The Living Shadow

The Living Shadow
Author: Maxwell Grant
Publisher:
Total Pages: 245
Release: 1931
Genre: Detective and mystery stories, American
ISBN:

The Far Southwest, 1846-1912

The Far Southwest, 1846-1912
Author: Howard Roberts Lamar
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 548
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780826322487

A history of the Four Corners states during their formative territorial years. Newly revised edition.

The Adobe Kingdom

The Adobe Kingdom
Author: Donald L. Lucero
Publisher: Sunstone Press
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2009
Genre: New Mexico
ISBN: 0865346690

Yearning for his roots and for a return to the land of his birth, Lucero follows two families across 12 generations, from their entry into New Mexico at "La Toma del Rio del Norte," in 1598, to their achievement of statehood in 1912 and beyond.

Colfax County

Colfax County
Author: Stephen Zimmer
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2015-09-14
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 1439653232

In 1841, Carlos Beaubien and Guadalupe Miranda received a grant of land from the governor of New Mexico in the northeastern part of the Mexican province. Frontier conditions prevented colonization of the grant until 1848, when Beaubien's son-in-law Lucien Maxwell led settlers from Taos to the Rayado River where it crossed the Santa Fe Trail. Maxwell's friend Kit Carson joined him the following year, and their ranch prospered in spite of frequent attacks by Jicarilla Apaches. Later, Maxwell moved north to the Cimarron River. Gold was discovered on the western part of the grant in 1866, and miners rushed to the diggings, establishing the town of Elizabethtown. It became the first seat of Colfax County in 1869. Maxwell sold the grant to foreign investors who organized the Maxwell Land Grant and Railway Company in 1870 and founded the town of Cimarron. The Santa Fe Railroad entered the county in 1879, which precipitated the creation of the towns of Raton and Springer and also fostered large-scale ranching, mining, and lumbering.

The Settlement of America

The Settlement of America
Author: James A. Crutchfield
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1500
Release: 2015-03-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 131745460X

First Published in 2015. This encyclopaedic collection includes Volumes 1 (A-L) and 2 (M-Z) as well as essays on the settlement of America. It can be argued that the westward expansion occurred only one week after the English landfall at Jamestown, Virginia, on May 14, 1607. Beginning on May 21, Captain John Smith, one of the colonization company’s leaders, and twenty-one companions made their way northwest up the James River for some 50 or 60 miles (80 or 96 km).