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The grant was owned by frontiersman Lucien B. Maxwell. An 1893 map of the Maxwell Land Grant in New Mexico and Colorado. The lands of the grant reach from the Great Plains to the crest of the Sangre de Cristo mountains an east-west distance of almost 50 miles (80 km). Baldy Mountain, 12,441 ft (3,792 m) in elevation, is in the grant area.
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 ...
Maxwell was born in Kaskaskia, Illinois Territory, about three months before Illinois became a state.He was the son of Hugh Maxwell, an Irish immigrant, and Odile Menard, daughter of Pierre Menard, a French-Canadian fur trader who was serving on the Illinois Territorial Council and who became the first Lieutenant Governor of the State of Illinois shortly after Maxwell's birth.
In 1870, Maxwell sold the grant to a group of English financiers for a reported price of $1.35 million. The new owners formed the Maxwell Land Grant and Railway Company. Their arrival and purchase of the land immediately spurred controversy among the people already living in the area, and animosity quickly developed between the two sides.
In the late 1860s, Lucien B. Maxwell sold more than 24,000 acres (97 km 2) of land to John Barkley Dawson for $3,700. [4] Dawson and his brother L.S. Dawson settled on the Vermijo River in 1867. [3] The Maxwell Land Grant Company later attempted to evict Dawson, but his ownership of the land was confirmed by a court in 1901.
The Stonewall area was originally part of the 1,714,765 acres (6,939.41 km 2) Maxwell Land Grant awarded by the government of New Mexico to two Mexican citizens in 1841. . The grant area was later owned by foreign investors who created the Maxwell Land Grant Company and attempted to expel the farmers, ranchers, and miners, both Anglos and Hispanics, who had settled on lands in the gr
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Vermejo Park was originally part of the Maxwell Land Grant.After Vermejo Park went through several owners in the late-19th century, William H. Bartlett (1850–1918) of Chicago, Illinois bought 205,000 acres (83,000 ha) from the Maxwell Land Grant Company in 1902.