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The remoteness of New Mexico from the seat of government in Mexico remained a characteristic of the settlement during the next two and one-half centuries. [2] [3] In 1598, about 50,000 Puebloans inhabited the valley of the Rio Grande River and its tributaries in New Mexico. They were sedentary agricultural people living in about 60 villages ...
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.
Case history; Prior: New Mexico v. Morton, 406 F. Supp. 1237 (D.N.M. 1975): Holding; The Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971 was a constitutional exercise of congressional power under the property clause at least insofar as it was applied to prohibit the New Mexico Livestock Board from entering upon the public lands of the United States and removing wild burros under the New ...
The formation was first named by C.L. Herrick in 1900 for exposures in the Sandia Mountains of New Mexico. Herrick included the entire sequence of clastic beds resting on the Great Unconformity . Gordon identified the clastic beds between the Kelly Limestone and Madera Limestone in the Magdalena Mountains as Sandia Formation.
"Geology and Economic Features of the Pegmatites of Taos and Rio Arriba Counties, New Mexico" (PDF). New Mexico School of Mines Bulletin (13). McLemore, Virginia T. (2011). "Geology and mineral resources in the Hopewell and Bromide No. 2 districts, northern Tusas Mountains, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico" (PDF). New Mexico Geological Society ...
The Glorieta Sandstone is of Kungurian (upper Leonardian) age [4] and forms a ledge at or near the top of the Permian section throughout central New Mexico. It rests conformably on the Yeso Group and is overlain either conformably by thin beds of the San Andres Formation or disconformably with Triassic beds.
San Gabriel de Yungue-Ouinge, or San Gabriel de Yunque, was the site of the first Spanish capital of its provincial territory of Santa Fe de Nuevo México.It is located where the Rio Chama meets the Rio Grande, west of present-day Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico.
Both Indian slavery and peonage were historically practiced by New Mexico's Hispano population, though they were never legally sanctioned. [1] Peonage was a form of debt slavery. Peons were poor Hispano or Genízaro workers indebted to wealthy landowners whom they served. [1] Northern abolitionists frequently condemned this system. [1]