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Michael Steck, Superintendent of Indian Affairs for New Mexico

person Michael Steck · 📝 Short · 52 words

Michael Steck is the namesake of the Michael Steck Papers at the University of New Mexico’s Center for Southwest Research and served as Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Territory of New Mexico [chunk:3983][chu…

Calvin Herring: Grant County Rancher and Confederate Veteran

person Calvin Herring · 📝 Short · 69 words

Calvin Herring was a Grant County rancher and Confederate veteran [chunk:5125][chunk:5135].

Albert J. Fountain — soldier, lawyer, and southwestern frontier leader

person Fountain · 📝 Short · 222 words

Fountain was a prominent soldier, lawyer, and public figure on the southwestern frontier, known for his military service and political career in Texas and New Mexico [chunk:4967].

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…

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