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Here is the first comprehensive history of the Colfax County area of northeastern New Mexico. Best known today as the home of the Philmont Scout Ranch, where thousands of Boy Scouts from around the world gather every year, this beautiful country has a violent and varied past. Centering around the town of Cimarron, the region includes much of the vast Maxwell Land Grant, one of the largest pieces of land to be owned by one man in the history of the United States. Controversy over control of the land began in the sixteenth century with quarrels among rival American Indian tribes. Spanish and later American troops continued the bloodshed for centuries more. The culmination of the area’s history of violence was the notorious Colfax County War between homesteaders and landowners that began in 1875 and continued until the Supreme Court acted fifteen years later. A gold and silver rush lured prospectors to the Maxwell ranch and booming Elizabethtown in the 1860s. But by 1870 the supply of precious metals was almost exhausted, and today Elizabethtown is a ghost town.
“An interesting and welltold account of an important area, Philmont deserves a place on the Western book shelf.”—Denver Post
“An interesting and welltold account of an important area, Philmont deserves a place on the Western book shelf.”—Denver Post
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INDEX
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Abreu, Charles
Abreu, Jesús G.
Abreu, Jesús G., Jr.
Abreu, Narciso
Abreu, Petra B.
Abreu, Sofia
Abreu, Victoriana
Abreu camp
Abreu family
Abreu Ranch
Adams, Lieutenant
Adams-Oñis Treaty, 1819
Agua Fria Creek
Albuquerque, N.M.
Alexander, A. J.
Alexander, Eveline
Allen, A. G.
Alpine tundra
Altoona, Pa.
Anderson, C. H.
Anderson, Clinton P.
Angel Fire Ski Basin
Antelope
Apache Indians. See Indians
Apache Springs camp
Archaeology
Argue, H. H.
Arizona
Arkansas
Arkansas River
Armijo, Manuel
Amy, William F. M.
Arthur & Co.
Aspen
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad
Athabascan language
Aztec Extension Gold Mines Co.
Aztec Gold Mines Co.
Aztec Gold Mining & Milling Co.
Aztec Mine
Aztec Ridge
Baldwin locomotive
Baldy Gold Mining & Milling Co.
Baldy Mountain: geology; mining”; purchase by Scouts; vegetation
Baldy Mountain Placer Co.
Baldy Town, N.M.: described, dismantled; founded
Ball mill
Baptist church
Barclay, Lorne
Barilla, Juan
Bartlesville, Okla.
Bear Canyon
Bears
Beaubien, Charles: biography; death; judge; settlements
Beaubien, Juana
Beaubien, Leonora
Beaubien, Luz
Beaubien, Narciso
Beaubien, Paul
Beaubien, Petra
Beaubien, Theodora
Beaubien and Miranda Land Grant: boundaries disputed; confirmation; Indian reservation; petition for; sale
Beaubien camp
Beaver
Beck, Preston
Becknell, William
Bennett, James.
Bent, Charles
Bent, George
Bent, St. Vrain & Co.
Bent, Teresina
Bent, William
Bent camp
Bent's Fort
Bergmann, Edward
Bergquist, Richard
Big Ditch, The
“Big House.” See Villa Philmonte
“Big Jack” (miner)
Big Nigger Gulch. Also see Nigger Gulch
Birds
Bishop, Joseph
Black Horse Canyon
Black Horse Mine
Black Jack's Hideout
Blackmore, R. M.
Black Mountain camp
Blair & Co.
Bobcats
Bogan, Samuel D.
Boggs, Tom
Bonito (lumber camp)
Bonito Canyon
Bough (sawmill owner)
Bowman, Frank C.
Boy Scouts of America. Also see Philmont Scout Ranch, Philturn Rockymountain Scoutcamp
Bronson, Larry
Brooks, Fred
Brooks, Margaret
Brown, Lee
Bryan, Ray H.
Buck, George
Buck Creek
Bucyrus Dredge Co.
Buffalo
Buffalo, N.Y.
Bullock, George
Burt, Leroy
Buruel, Henry
Bustamante, Don Juan de
Butterfield, Clinton
California
California, Gulf of
California Column
California Gulch
Campbell, George I.
Camping Headquarters
Canada
Canadian River
Cape Girardeau College
Cárdenas (admitted assassin)
Carlana (Apache)
Carleton,...
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Preface
- Contents
- I: The Cimarron Country
- II: Prehistoric Inhabitants
- III: Indians and Spaniards
- IV: Explorers, Traders, and Trappers
- V: The Beaubien and Miranda Land Grant
- VI: Lucien B. Maxwell: Empire Builder
- VII: Bonanza on Baldy Mountain
- VIII: Redskins and Britishers
- IX: The Colfax County War
- X: Cowboys and Cattlemen
- XI: Revival of Baldy Mining
- XII: Tracks, Ties, and Timber
- XIII: Ranching in the Twentieth Century
- XIV: The End of Baldy Mining
- XV: A Paradise for Scouting
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index