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 Victorio · 📝 Short · 12 words
person Indians · 📝 Short · 132 words
Indians sighted in Grant County in 1891 caused alarm among settlers and prospectors, leading to troop deployments and a notable engagement [chunk:4696][chunk:4698][chunk:4691].
place Santa Fe · 📝 Short · 73 words
person Peter Mungall · 📝 Short · 157 words
person Narrator · 📝 Short · 20 words
Thirty-three years ago, the narrator, a "tenderfoot," began relating the incidents of a journey [chunk:5014].
person F. X. Aubrey · 📝 Short · 125 words
Aubrey was a Santa Fe trader who, around 1851, rode over 800 miles from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to Independence, Missouri, in five days and nineteen hours, a feat regarded as the greatest physical achievement on the pla…
person Felix Knox · 📝 Short · 237 words
Felix Knox was an all-round gambler killed by Apaches in the spring of 1882 while traveling from Silver City to Clifton, remembered for a last stand in which he killed seven attackers before being overwhelmed [chunk:4…
person Sylvester Mowry · 📝 Short · 102 words
person James Hiler · 📝 Short · 112 words
person Campbell Hardy · 📝 Short · 131 words
place New Mexico Territory · 📝 Short · 36 words
New Mexico Territory was documented in official reports from the 1880s, such as those included in "Illustrated New Mexico" [chunk:1442][chunk:4033].
org New Mexico Military Institute · 📝 Short · 87 words
The New Mexico Military Institute (NMMI) in Roswell, New Mexico, was a military school founded around 1898 [chunk:3888].
person Barney Kerr · 📝 Short · 112 words
Barney Kerr is a Grant County man tried for the 1891 murder of his brother, Jimmie Kerr, at the Mangus [chunk:4596][chunk:4630].
person M. Cooney · 📖 Deep History · 528 words
Cooney, a resident of the Mogollon mining district, emerged as a vocal advocate for a permanent bridge across the Gila River, circulating a petition in Silver City that aimed to secure a crossing essential to Grant Co…
place Pacific vein · 🧭 Treasure Research · 172 words
place Pacific vein · 📖 Deep History · 368 words
The Pacific vein, a mineral-bearing zone in the Pinos Altos mining district of Grant County, was a site of both ambitious development and sudden danger during the late nineteenth century, drawing capital, labor, and a…
place Pacific vein · 📝 Short · 47 words
org Lyons & Campbell Cattle Company · 📖 Deep History · 551 words
thing Bonney Mine · 🧭 Treasure Research · 208 words
For prospectors and relic hunters working the Burro Mountains, the Bonney Mine (also recorded as the Bonny Mine) represents a tantalizing target: a property once called the richest in its local districts, with average…
person Carpio · 📖 Deep History · 632 words
Carpio, a Mescalero Apache younger brother of the headman Roman Chiquito, was subject to spells of violent insanity and in a sudden fit shot and killed a family friend, the herder Nicolas Acosta, an act that led to hi…
person Mr. Piper · 📝 Short · 117 words
person Miguel Otero · 📝 Short · 79 words
org Masonic fraternity · 📝 Short · 93 words
person Manuel Barrera · 📝 Short · 637 words