Stories
Permanent, primary-source-cited narratives. Each story is generated from existing claims with full citations, and rewrites itself when fresh sources land โ every fact traces back to a chunk you can read.
person Sam ยท ๐ Short ยท 104 words
Sam is a companion who rescued the narrator from a bear attack in Grant County, New Mexico, using his Winchester rifle and lasso [chunk:4839][chunk:4853].
person Redford Job ยท ๐ Short ยท 140 words
person O. L. Scott ยท ๐ Short ยท 64 words
person N. A. Osmer ยท ๐ Short ยท 37 words
person Nai_chi_ti_Nachez ยท ๐ Short ยท 37 words
person Miss Higgles ยท ๐ Short ยท 53 words
person Martin Gallegos ยท ๐ Short ยท 94 words
person Martin Flynn ยท ๐ Short ยท 88 words
Martin Flynn was a railroad road master killed in a fall from a train near Anthony, New Mexico, in 1891 [chunk:4627][chunk:4658].
person Julian Swallow ยท ๐ Short ยท 76 words
Julian Swallow was a prospector and occasional book peddler from Central, New Mexico, whose mysterious disappearance around 1890 was widely believed to be a murder. [chunk:4900]
person Joseph F. Smith ยท ๐ Short ยท 23 words
Smith, was a resident of Deming, New Mexico, in 1889 [chunk:1920].
person John Doyle ยท ๐ Short ยท 37 words
person J. H. Bragaw ยท ๐ Short ยท 53 words
person J. E. Wolford ยท ๐ Short ยท 121 words
person George W. Grayson ยท ๐ Short ยท 50 words
Grayson was a millionaire and one of the largest land owners in the West, best known as the father of the Humboldt Land & Cattle Company at Beowawe. [chunk:5341][chunk:5370]
person Gene Kirker ยท ๐ Short ยท 49 words
place Fort Seldon ยท ๐ Short ยท 37 words
Fort Seldon is a ruined military post in southern New Mexico, established in 1865 to protect settlers and travelers from Gila Apache raids [chunk:1942][chunk:4218].
person Colonel McIlhany ยท ๐ Short ยท 89 words
Colonel McIlhany, a resident of Los Cerrillos, New Mexico, was an early pathfinder who crossed the plains to California in 1849 and later narrated his journey. [chunk:5397]
person Charley Snow ยท ๐ Short ยท 98 words
Charley Snow was an LC cowboy in Silver City, New Mexico, who won his bride in a dramatic elopement in early 1890 after overcoming arrest and a rival suitor [chunk:2413][chunk:2439].
person A. B. Laird ยท ๐ Short ยท 23 words
person Samuel Beach Axtell ยท ๐ Short ยท 124 words
Samuel Beach Axtell, Governor of New Mexico Territory in 1877, visited Colfax County and proposed dividing the county, but refused to meet with residents or restore their district courts [chunk:4017][chunk:4018].
person James A. McKenna ยท ๐ Short ยท 57 words
McKenna, a prospector and author, arrived in Grant County as a youth in the 1880s and spent sixty years chronicling the frontier history of the Black Range, Mogollon Mountains, and Gila Country [chunk:5409].
place Fort Bayard ยท ๐ Short ยท 75 words
person Charley Campbell ยท ๐ Short ยท 53 words
thing Butterfield Overland Trail โ Divisions ยท ๐ Short ยท 55 words