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Paula Angel (c. 1842 – April 26, 1861) was a Mexican-American woman executed for the murder of her lover. She was hanged from a cottonwood tree in Las Vegas, New Mexico, following a brief and somewhat abnormal legal process.
Pete Campos (born 1954) is an American politician and educator serving as a Democratic member of the New Mexico Senate, representing the 8th District since 1991.Campos also serves as President of Luna Community College in Las Vegas, New Mexico.
The Plaza Hotel, built in 1881, on the Plaza of West Las Vegas New Mexico Insane Asylum in Las Vegas, 1904. Las Vegas was established in 1835 after a group of settlers received a land grant from the Mexican government. (The land had previously been granted to Luis María Cabeza de Baca, whose family later received a settlement.) The town was ...
Location of San Miguel County in New Mexico. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in San Miguel County, New Mexico. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in San Miguel County, New Mexico, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates ...
The Variety Hall shootout, also called the Las Vegas Saloon Shootout (January 22, 1880), was a gunfight that took place in Las Vegas, New Mexico, United States.It launched gunman "Mysterious" Dave Mather to fame.
The Dodge City Gang were a group of Kansas gunfighters and gamblers who dominated the political and economic life of Las Vegas, New Mexico in 1879 and early 1880. [1] This came at a time when Las Vegas was booming and was thought to be the future metropolis of New Mexico. As with many a boomtown, it attracted a number of opportunists and outlaws.
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A police officer was found guilty Wednesday of voluntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a Black man during a 2022 confrontation at a New Mexico gas station. Las ...
The Luis Maria Baca Grant No. 4, south of Crestone, Colorado, was a large land grant made in 1860 by the United States to the heirs of the original Vegas Grandes Grant to the Baca family of New Mexico in Las Vegas, New Mexico. [1] [2] [3] Title to the grant in Las Vegas was clouded by a second grant of the same land. [3]