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Indians in Grant County: 1891 Sightings and Incidents

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].

Narrator (Tenderfoot) Recalls Journey Thirty-Three Years Ago

person Narrator · 📝 Short · 20 words

Thirty-three years ago, the narrator, a "tenderfoot," began relating the incidents of a journey [chunk:5014].

F. X. Aubrey: Santa Fe trader who rode 800 miles in under six days

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…

Felix Knox, gambler killed by Apaches in 1882

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…

Sylvester Mowry

person Sylvester Mowry · 📝 Short · 102 words

New Mexico Territory: A Southwest Region in Reports and History

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].

New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell

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].

Barney Kerr: Grant County man acquitted of brother’s 1891 murder

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].

Capt. M. Cooney and the Campaign to Bridge the Gila

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…

The Pacific Vein at Pinos Altos: A Lode of Promise and Peril

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…

Bonney Mine Research Brief: High-Grade Veins in the Burro Mountains

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…

Carpio: A Mescalero Tragedy in Territorial New Mexico

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…

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