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Old West — Grant County, New Mexico
The Grant County, NM Old West knowledge graph documents 13,180 people, places, events, and organizations from 1840 through 1945, drawn from 5,564 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 →Brown was a Chief in the United States Navy Submarine Service who served in the Pacific Theater during World War II [chunk:2916][chunk:4089].
about personCharles E. Brown · 31 words
A young man named Bert Nickerbocker, living near San Juan, was taken to a hospital in Ouray, Colorado, after a severe roping accident in 1891 [chunk:5038][chunk:5099].
about personBert Nickerbocker · 65 words
about personAdela Zeans · 38 words
about orgThe Enterprise · 62 words
about personR. V. Newsham · 75 words
Ricolite is a banded serpentine ornamental stone found on the Gila River near Carlisle, used for architectural ornaments, and is probably the only deposit of its kind in the world [chunk:5200][chunk:5230].
about thingRicolite · 112 words
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Drag the year slider — places appear, intensify, and fade as the corpus records them across time. Markers are sized by claim density.
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People (6561)
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 (2098)
placetowns, mines, ranches, forts, landmarks
- Grant County
- New Mexico Territory(New Mexico)
- New Mexico
- Silver City
- Santa Fe(Santa Fc)
- Faywood Hot Springs(Faywood)
Organizations (1427)
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)
- Silver City Mining and Milling Company(Silver City Mining and Milling Co.)
- Sierra County Advocate(The Sierra County Advocate)
- Farmers Cooperative Grain Company
Events (585)
eventkillings, treaties, founding dates, raids
- 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)
- Jicarilla Apache Fiesta
- Village of Columbus election of 1901(election for Columbus village trustees and officers)
- 1939 Homecoming(13th annual Homecoming)
- emigrant party crossing to California(party of emigrants)
Things (2509)
thingartifacts, mining claims, structures, named objects
- Spall - Rhyolite, Rudely Flaked
- Hough turkey(adult turkey specimen collected by Hough)
- Silver Cell Mine(Silver Cell mine)
- Ricolite(Ricolite)
- Bonney Mine(Bonny Mine)
- burden basket
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Every decade from the territorial era through World War II.
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Newest sources
- That tree will be handy to hang a peddler…(1891)
- They had the rope, they caught the horse,…(1891)
- We reached Sacramento City September 7…(1891)
- “Trukee desert of sand fifty miles without…(1891)
- city ten days…(1891)
Newest entities
- Gila Apache raids (pre-1865 established context) event
- US Highway 85 place
- unknown_recipient person
- unknown_sender person
- unknown recipient 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 13180 entities and 5564 primary sources from that period.
Who lived in Grant County, New Mexico?
6561 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?
2098 places are documented — including Silver City, Pinos Altos, Mesilla, Fort Bayard, and many smaller settlements and mines; 234 of these have known coordinates and appear on the interactive map. See /old-west/grant-county/places.
What primary sources back this knowledge graph?
5564 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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