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The Santa Fe Ring was an informal group of powerful politicians, attorneys, and land speculators in territorial New Mexico from 1865 until 1912. The Ring was composed of newly-arrived Anglo Americans and opportunistic Hispanics from long-resident and prominent families in New Mexico. Acquiring wealth, both groups realized, lay in owning or ...
Caffey, David L. Chasing the Santa Fe Ring (2014). Duran, Tobias (1984) "Francisco Chavez, Thomas B. Catron, and Organized Political Violence in Santa Fe in the 1890s." New Mexico Historical Review 59: pp. 291–310. Garraty, John A. and Carnes, Mark C. (eds.) (1999) American National Biography. Oxford University Press, New York, ISBN 0-19 ...
Politician and land speculator Thomas Catron, a member of the Santa Fe Ring, acquired nearly all the land by 1883 but later sold it to a development company. Access to the common lands of the grant by the Hispanic settlers and their descendants gradually disappeared as the common land became owned by Anglo ranchers, development companies, and ...
The Maxwell Land Grant and Railway Company was also allied with the powerful Santa Fe Ring, a group of influential lawyers and politicians who controlled many Western states. [6] The settlers did not like the incursion of the soldiers on to the land, and this caused a great deal of violence between the factions.
Maxwell sold the grant in 1870 for $650,000 to a group of Anglo and Hispanic land speculators called the Santa Fe Ring who quickly marketed it to English investors for $1,350,000 who then found Dutch investors to issue $5,000,000 in stock in the Maxwell Land Grant and Railroad Company. [20]
Tommie Carter Jr. is the owner of Texas Vortex, a Texas-based storm-chasing company that uses their collected data to enhance the understanding of preparedness for Mother Nature’s most ...
Jul. 30—Charges were filed Tuesday against 11 people suspected of taking part in an illegal drug dealing ring within the Santa Fe County jail. The accused include seven men who were incarcerated ...
Two-time Oscar winner Gene Hackman, 95, and his wife, classical pianist Betsy Arakawa, 65, and their dog were found dead Wednesday afternoon in their home outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, authorities ...