Frank Springer And New Mexico

Author : David L. Caffey
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1603440046

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Frank Springer and New Mexico by David L. Caffey Pdf

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.

Author : Frank Springer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Land grants
ISBN : PRNC:32101078169339

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Land Titles in New Mexico by Frank Springer Pdf

Author : Ronald E. Bromley
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781481700023

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The Last Train to Leave Cimarron, New Mexico by Ronald E. Bromley Pdf

The last train to leave Cimarron, New Mexico The story of the last train to leave Cimarron endevors to answer two questions: Why did the railroad industry pull out of Cimarron, New Mexico and when did the last train leave? To answer these questions the author summarizes the history of the Cimarron country, the various people who worked to develop its lands, natural resources and rail service. How did the tiny community of Ute Park develop and why did it not grow into the vacation and recreational community the railroad executives envisioned. Was a northern railroad through New Mexico, Arizona and Southern California , going to the Pacific possible and was it needed? In many places history is driven by economics, so to understand the railroad history of Cimarron we also looked at the development of the automobile, truck transportation, air travel, bus transportation, one speed long hall railroads, development of the electric diesel locomotive and the decline of steam driven trains. All of these things are part of the complete Cimarron rail road saga. Then, there is the story of the last train.

Author : David L. Caffey
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806192390

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When Cimarron Meant Wild by David L. Caffey Pdf

The Spanish word cimarron, meaning “wild” or “untamed,” refers to a region in the southern Rocky Mountains where control of timber, gold, coal, and grazing lands long bred violent struggle. After the U.S. occupation following the 1846–1848 war with Mexico, this tract of nearly two million acres came to be known as the Maxwell Land Grant. WhenCimarron Meant Wild presents a new history of the collision that occurred over the region’s resources between 1870 and 1900. Author David L. Caffey describes the epic late-nineteenth-century range war in an account deeply informed by his historical perspective on social, political, and cultural issues that beset the American West to this day. Cimarron country churned with the tensions of the Old West—land disputes, lawlessness, violence, and class war among miners, a foreign corporation, local elites, Texas cattlemen, and the haughty “Santa Fe Ring” of lawyerly speculators. And present, still, were the indigenous Jicarilla Apache and Mouache Ute people, dispossessed of their homeland by successive Spanish, Mexican, and American regimes. A Mexican grant of uncertain size and bounds, awarded to Carlos Beaubien and Guadalupe Miranda in 1841 and later acquired by Lucien Maxwell, marked the beginning of a fight for control of the land and set off overlapping conflicts known as the Colfax County War, the Maxwell Land Grant War, and the Stonewall War. Caffey draws on new research to paint a complex picture of these events, and of those that followed the sale of the claim to investors in 1870. These clashes played out over the following thirty years, involving the new English owners, miners and prospectors, livestock grazers and farmers, and Native Americans. Just how wild was the Cimarron country in the late 1800s? And what were the consequences for the region and for those caught up in the conflict? The answers, pursued through this remarkable work, enhance our understanding of cultural and economic struggle in the American West.

Author : Ralph Emerson Twitchell
Publisher : Sunstone Press
Page : 829 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : New Mexico
ISBN : 9780865345669

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The Leading Facts of New Mexican History by Ralph Emerson Twitchell Pdf

Twitchell, considered the first major historian of New Mexico, showcased the states traditions, history, beauty, glamour, scenery, archaeology, and material resources in this 1911 edition.

Author : David Pike
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0826331181

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Roadside New Mexico by David Pike Pdf

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.

Author : William Aloysius Keleher
Publisher : William Keleher
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0826306780

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Maxwell Land Grant by William Aloysius Keleher Pdf

This text focuses on the circumstances surrounding the Maxwell Land Grant in New Mexico and southern Colorado. The grant involved more than two thousand square miles of land. This work reviews the history of the land in question from the days of Mexican rule under Governor Armijo, to the time of Vigilantes in Raton. It also speaks of the ownership controversy, wherein the Utes, Apaches, Spanish and Americans all thought that they were the true land owners.

Author : Robert W. Larson
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826329479

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New Mexico's Quest for Statehood, 1846-1912 by Robert W. Larson Pdf

Why did New Mexico remain so long in political limbo before being admitted to the Union as a state? Combining extensive research and a clear and well-organized style, Robert W. Larson provides the answers to this question in a thorough and comprehensive account of the territory’s extraordinary six-decade struggle for statehood. This book is no mere chronology of political moves, however. It is the history of a turbulent frontier state, sweeping into the current almost every colorful character of the territory. Not only politicians but ranchers, outlaws, soldiers, newspapermen, Indians, merchants, lawyers, and people from every walk of life were involved. This is a book for the reader who is interested in any aspect of southwestern territorial history.

Author : F. Stanley
Publisher : Sunstone Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Colorado
ISBN : 9780865346529

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The Grant That Maxwell Bought by F. Stanley Pdf

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.

Author : Henry Jack Tobias,Charles E. Woodhouse
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0826323316

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Santa Fe by Henry Jack Tobias,Charles E. Woodhouse Pdf

A readable, captivating social history centered on the essence of Santa Fe--the lives of its Hispano and Anglo residents.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Earth sciences
ISBN : IND:30000125146856

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Earth Sciences History by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jose Aranda,Silvio Torres-Saillant
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1611922658

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Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage, Volume IV by Jose Aranda,Silvio Torres-Saillant Pdf

This historic fourth volume of articles represents the finished, re-worked product of the biennial conferences of recovery, providing theoretical and practical approaches, and critical studies on specific texts. Jose Aranda and Silvio Torres-Saillant's introduction conceptualizes and unifies a broad historical swath that encompasses the Spanish and English-language expression of Hispanic natives, immigrants and exiles from the colonial period to 1960.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : HARVARD:HL01TW

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Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court by Anonim Pdf

Author : David L. Caffey
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Businessmen
ISBN : 9780826354426

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Chasing the Santa Fe Ring by David L. Caffey Pdf

David L. Caffey's book tells the story of the rise and fall of the Santa Fe Ring, looking beyond myth and symbol to explore the history of this remarkably durable alliance.

Author : Randall M. MacDonald,Gene Lamm,Sarah E. MacDonald
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738595276

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Cimarrón and Philmont by Randall M. MacDonald,Gene Lamm,Sarah E. MacDonald Pdf

Situated where the High Plains meet the Rocky Mountains and where the Santa Fe Trail crosses the Cimarron River, the village of Cimarrón has a richly varied history. Spectacular rock columns, thick seams of coal, dinosaur footprints, pit houses, and petroglyphs echo an early geologic and human presence. Spanish explorers encountered area Native American settlements in the 1700s, and by the 1820s, mountain men roamed these Rockies while eastern merchants followed Indian trails to Santa Fe. By the 1860s, Cimarrón was the headquarters of a vast Mexican land grant managed by Lucien Maxwell and Kit Carson. A gristmill supplied local soldiers and Indians, and the discovery of gold attracted thousands. The Colfax County War erupted after speculators purchased the grant in 1870. When the railroad arrived in 1906, a "New Town" was built on the north side of the river. Today, through tourism and the Philmont Scout Ranch, the Cimarrón area offers a unique window into the history and growth of the West.