Who and what shaped the mining economy of Grant County?

Mining in Grant County, NM

Silver, copper, and gold mining was the economic engine of Grant County from the 1860s onward. Pinos Altos, the Santa Rita copper pit, and the Silver City silver boom drew miners, capital, and conflict.

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Camp Grant Massacre (1871)event

An 1871 attack on an Apache camp by Anglo and Mexican civilians and their O'odham allies in Arizona Territory.

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Socorro Republican Delegate Convention 1908event

A convention to elect eleven delegates to the territorial convention.

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Mining in Grant County, NM

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