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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 ...
He later served on the New Mexico Territorial Council (1884, 1888, 1889), as the Territorial Delegate to Congress (1895–1897), President of the New Mexico Bar Association (1895), and Mayor of Santa Fe (1906–1908). In addition to practicing law Catron was a member of the Santa Fe Ring of
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The Fenn Treasure was a cache of gold and jewels that Forrest Fenn, an art dealer and author from Santa Fe, New Mexico, [1] hid in the Rocky Mountains of the United States. [2] It was found approximately a decade later in 2020 [3] in Wyoming by an anonymous treasure hunter later revealed to be former journalist and medical student Jack Stuef.
This group of men was known as the Santa Fe Ring. Ring members included Thomas Catron , the attorney general and political boss of New Mexico Territory. Catron owned 3,000,000 acres (12,000 km 2 ) of land and was one of the largest land holders in the history of the United States.
The ensuing struggle between the land owners and their political allies (i.e., the Santa Fe Ring) against the squatters spilled over into years of bloodshed with as many as 200 people being killed over the 15-year period of the war. [10] Burleson sided with the squatters or anti-grant forces, aligning himself with his friend, Clay Allison.
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Partition was therefore impractical and the court ruled that the common lands must be sold. Requests for partition was one of the ways that members of the Santa Fe Ring acquired grant land or profited from legal disputes concerning its ownership and disposition. One of the prominent members of the Ring was the attorney for the petitioners. [17 ...