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Old West — Grant County, New Mexico
The Grant County, NM Old West knowledge graph documents 14,014 people, places, events, and organizations from 1840 through 1945, drawn from 5,768 primary sources, with every factual claim cited back to a specific archival document.
From the Apache homeland and Spanish-colonial settlements through the Silver City mining boom, Fort Bayard, the Pinos Altos diggings, and the World War II era — structured for historians, genealogists, and AI research agents.
📖 Featured stories
all stories →When a traveler returned to Deming around early 1891, he found a settlement transformed—a deputy sheriff named Dan Tucker had been appointed, and he was credited with methodically confronting, arresting, or killing the desperadoes who had terrorized the fledgling town [chunk:4233][chunk:4244].
about personDan Tucker · 447 words
about personDan Tucker · 43 words
The Silver Cell mine, situated on Whiskey Creek within two miles of Pinos Altos, was accidentally discovered by the Dimmick brothers in September 1890—a find that eventually produced over $4.3 million in dividends and, as of August 1891, a single-month payout of $100,000.[chunk:5144][chunk:5168]
about thingSilver Cell Mine · 353 words
The Silver Cell mine, situated on Whiskey Creek within two miles of Pinos Altos, was discovered in a moment of frustration by two weary prospectors and went on to pay over four million dollars in dividends, a sum that placed it among the most remarkable silver producers in Grant County’s history. [chunk:5144][chunk:5167]
about thingSilver Cell Mine · 539 words
about personJim Williams · 63 words
about personBilly Birchfield · 48 words
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People (6774)
personsheriffs, outlaws, Apache leaders, miners, ranchers, homesteaders
- John Lovely(Lovely)
- J. J. Pearson(Pearson)
- Pilar Perez(Pilar)
- Roman Chiquito(Roman Chiquito)
- H. H. Whitehill(Sheriff Whitehill)
- Robert Redding(Redding)
Places (2255)
placetowns, mines, ranches, forts, landmarks
- Grant County
- New Mexico Territory(New Mexico)
- Silver City
- Camp Cody (N.M.)(Camp Cody)
- New Mexico
- Santa Fe(Santa Fc)
Organizations (1582)
orgmining companies, militias, governments, civic groups
- New Mexico Military Institute(THE NEW MEXICO Military Instituted)
- Lyons & Campbell Cattle Company(Lyons & Campbell cattle company)
- Grand Jury(grand jury)
- Louis Rocky i Pacific Railway Company(Louis Rocky i Pacific Railway Company)
- Silver City Mining and Milling Company(Silver City Mining and Milling Co.)
- Sierra County Advocate(The Sierra County Advocate)
Events (669)
eventkillings, treaties, founding dates, raids
- Victorio's War
- Forty-third Commencement of New Mexico Military Institute(graduation ceremonies)
- Columbus village election(election of Village trustees and other officers for the Village of Columbus)
- committee of fortyeight and labor party conference(conference committees of the committee of fortyeight and of the labor party)
- Jicarilla Apache Fiesta
- Village of Columbus election of 1901(election for Columbus village trustees and officers)
Things (2734)
thingartifacts, mining claims, structures, named objects
- Butterfield Overland Trail
- Buffalo Soldiers
- Spall - Rhyolite, Rudely Flaked
- Hough turkey(adult turkey specimen collected by Hough)
- Silver Cell Mine(Silver Cell mine)
- Butterfield Overland Trail – Divisions
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Recent additions
Newest sources
- Image 3 of Deming graphic (Deming, N.M.), April 4, 1913(1913)
- Image 2 of Deming graphic (Deming, N.M.), November 24, 1911(1911)
- Image 4 of Deming graphic (Deming, N.M.), May 5, 1911(1911)
- Image 1 of Deming graphic (Deming, N.M.), October 7, 1910(1910)
- Image 1 of Carrizozo news (Carrizozo, N.M.), August 22, 1919(1919)
Newest entities
- Bauna and Knott's place
- Centennial thing
- GOS brand org
- meeting of the stock association event
- Ladies of Silver City person
Frequently asked
What is Grant County, New Mexico?
Grant County is a region in southwestern New Mexico that, in the Old West era through World War II, hosted Apache homelands, Spanish-colonial settlements, the silver-mining boom around Silver City, mining and ranching frontiers, and the Mexican War of Independence and US territorial transitions. This knowledge graph documents 14014 entities and 5768 primary sources from that period.
Who lived in Grant County, New Mexico?
6774 documented people are catalogued — sheriffs, outlaws, Apache leaders, miners, ranchers, homesteaders, journalists, and politicians — each with primary-source citations. Browse the full list at /old-west/grant-county/people.
What towns and places are in Grant County?
2255 places are documented — including Silver City, Pinos Altos, Mesilla, Fort Bayard, and many smaller settlements and mines; 244 of these have known coordinates and appear on the interactive map. See /old-west/grant-county/places.
What primary sources back this knowledge graph?
5768 primary sources are currently ingested, including newspaper articles from Chronicling America, photographs from UNM CONTENTdm, federated material via DPLA, memoirs, mining claims, and oral histories. Every factual claim on the site is cited back to a specific chunk of a specific source. See /old-west/grant-county/sources.
How is this different from a Wikipedia article?
Wikipedia pages summarize prose. This site is a structured knowledge graph: every claim links to the source chunk it came from, every entity is independently addressable by URL, and every relationship between entities is machine-queryable via /old-west/grant-county/api. Built specifically for primary-source historians, genealogists, and AI research agents.
Can I contribute a source or correction?
Yes — submit a new source or a correction to an existing claim at /old-west/grant-county/contribute. Contributions are reviewed before being indexed into the graph. Disputes on existing claims are tracked with full attribution.
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