Stories
Permanent, primary-source-cited narratives. Each story is generated from existing claims with full citations, and rewrites itself when fresh sources land — every fact traces back to a chunk you can read.
person George Metzger · 📝 Short · 92 words
Hubbell's Socorro County ranch, fatally shot mayordomo Jose Maria Chavez in a self-defense incident after Chavez revealed a murder plot and opened fire [chunk:3189][chunk:3190].
person George Forget · 📝 Short · 83 words
George Forget is a wanted man who escaped from the sheriff of Tombstone in 1889 and was captured at Separ station in 1890. [chunk:2972][chunk:2973][chunk:2976]
person Jo E. Sheridan · 📝 Short · 70 words
person John W. Graeter · 📝 Short · 92 words
place Burro Mountains · 🧭 Treasure Research · 415 words
The Burro Mountains, a copper-rich range straddling the old paths between Deming, Tyrone, and Lordsburg, hold a dense scatter of named camps, buried veins, and turquoise pockets that have drawn prospectors since befor…
place Burro Mountains · 📖 Deep History · 310 words
By 1882, development in the Burros was being pushed with "all possible rapidity," alongside the Santa Rita, Lone Mountain, and Georgetown districts [chunk:57].
place Burro Mountains · 📝 Short · 110 words
person Capt. French · 📖 Deep History · 315 words
Ranch along the San Francisco River in Grant County, a stretch of country then known simply as “the Frisco,” and was a familiar figure in the region’s cattle industry and in the Silver City news columns. [chunk:1914][…
person Harvey Cooney · 📝 Short · 21 words
person Arthur Baker · 📝 Short · 103 words
Arthur Baker is a stenographer and bookkeeper who moved from New York to Silver City, New Mexico, in 1889, only to spark a scandal by bringing his wife's sister instead of his wife [chunk:2165].
person Levi Harkey · 📝 Short · 102 words
person J. H. McKenzie · 📝 Short · 38 words
person Harry Patterson · 📝 Short · 102 words
Harry Patterson was a well-known waiter from Silver City who was shot dead in Las Cruces by a Chinese cook named Jo in 1890 after slapping him. [chunk:2690][chunk:2693]
person Dolores Salcido · 📝 Short · 112 words
person W. O. Thompson · 📝 Short · 19 words
person Unknown Subject (Hastings Lumber Co. manager) · 📝 Short · 52 words
Hastings served as the general manager of the Breman Silver Mine on Chloride Flat east of Silver City, overseeing production of over $1,000,000 in chloride silver from 1879 to 1883 [chunk:1406].
person Nelson · 📝 Short · 92 words
person J. A. Ancheta · 📝 Short · 33 words
person F. P. Whitehill · 📝 Short · 92 words
Whitehill was a sheriff in Grant County, New Mexico, whose tenure around 1889–1890 involved financial irregularities and a county-wood delivery controversy [chunk:2780][chunk:2877].
person Henry Grey · 📝 Short · 33 words
person Harry Hermann · 📝 Short · 70 words
person George Rickets · 📝 Short · 141 words
person George Olney · 📝 Short · 94 words
George Olney was a stage company employee in southwestern New Mexico who served as a shotgun guard and later helped capture would-be robbers near Morenci [chunk:2586][chunk:2602][chunk:2588].