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Competition for land and water between Hispanics and Anglos began in the 1860s and has been a constant in the Sangre de Cristo grant ever since. In 1864, Beaubien's wife sold the grant area to Colorado Territorial Governor William Gilpin. The sale document obligated Gilpin and his partners to respect the settlers' property and communal rights.
The land grants later judged by the U.S. to be legal ranged in size from 200 acres (81 ha) for Cañada Ancha (now a suburb of Santa Fe) to 1,714,765 acres (6,939.41 km 2) for the Maxwell Land Grant on the eastern slope of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains extending northward into Colorado. Although the terms of each grant varied they fell into two ...
The Las Trampas Land Grant was awarded in 1751 by the colonial government of Spain to twelve Hispano families. The community of Las Trampas, New Mexico was founded the same year. The grant consisted of 28,132 acres (11,385 ha) of land on the western slopes of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. The settlers served as a buffer on the frontiers of ...
Philmont Scout Ranch is a ranch located in Colfax County, New Mexico, United States, near the village of Cimarron; it covers 140,177 acres (56,728 ha) of wilderness in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains on the east side of the Cimarron Range of the Rocky Mountains. Donated by oil baron Waite Phillips, the ranch is owned and operated by the Boy ...
Sangre de Cristo Mountains to the East of Santa Fe, taken during a winter sunset after a snowfall on 29 January 2013 Sangre de Cristo Mountain Range Oblique air photo of northern Sangre de Cristo Range, looking south with Great Sand Dunes near central horizon February 2003 astronaut photography of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains from Santa Fe (bottom center) to north of Taos, taken from the ...
The Maxwell Land grant has an area of 1,714,765 acres (6,939.41 km 2) in New Mexico and southern Colorado.The grant lands measure almost 60 miles (97 km) from north to south and 50 miles (80 km) from east to west, reaching from the Great Plains to the crest of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
Trinchera Ranch. Trinchera Ranch (Blanca, Forbes Trinchera Ranch) is a historic and expansive private ranch located in the San Luis Valley of Southern Colorado, at the base of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, near the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve. [1] Covering approximately 172,000 acres, Trinchera Ranch is the largest private ...
Sangre de Cristo Range. Sangre de Cristo Range seen from Hardscrabble Pass. The Sangre de Cristo Range is a mountain range in the Rocky Mountains in southern Colorado in the United States, running north and south along the east side of the Rio Grande Rift. The mountains extend southeast from Poncha Pass for about 75 mi (121 km) through south ...