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Vermejo Park Ranch, [1] Vermejo Ranch, or Vermejo, is a 550,000-acre (220,000 ha) nature reserve and guest ranch in northeastern New Mexico and southern Colorado.Ted Turner Reserves, the luxury hospitality company founded by Ted Turner, includes conservation research and ecosystem restoration along with guest operations. [1]
The Bell Ranch is a historic ranch in Tucumcari, New Mexico, United States of America. Owned by John Malone since 2010, it is one of the largest privately owned ranches in the United States. [2] As of 2021, Malone is the second largest land owner in the country with 2.2 million acres. [3] The ranch became a national landmark in 1974. [4]
Community grants were made to groups of settlers. Each settler received a house site and an irrigatable plot for agriculture. Most of the land, however, was held in common for all members of the community. Uses made of the common land included pastures for livestock, water, timber, firewood, hunting, fishing, foraging, and rock quarrying.
The Maxwell Land Grant, also known as the Beaubien-Miranda Land Grant, was a 1,714,765-acre (6,939.41 km 2) Mexican land grant in Colfax County, New Mexico, and part of adjoining Las Animas County, Colorado. This 1841 land grant was one of the largest contiguous private landholdings in the history of the United States.
Settlers were guaranteed access to the upland areas for grazing livestock, collecting firewood, hunting, and fishing. [9] In 1860 the population of the Rio Culebra drainage area reached 1,700 persons. [10] The history of Hispanic settlements near Costilla Creek in Taos County, New Mexico is similar to that of the Rio Culebra. [11]
Wealthy oil magnate and wilderness enthusiast Waite Phillips amassed a large part of the old land grant in the 1920s, totaling over 300,000 acres (1,200 km 2). Phillips built a large residence in the lowlands of Philmont. He turned the ranch into a private game reserve for himself and friends, and built a number of hunting lodges and day-use camps.
I have recommended confirmation to the extent only of the land reduced by grantees to their actual use and occupancy, to be ascertained by additional evidence and survey. The report "San Miguel Del Bado" to Honorable L. Q. G. Lamar, Secretary of the Interior, May 13, 1887 under the section "New Mexico Private Land Claims," follows verbatim: [17]
A map of the Tierra Amarilla Land Grant in New Mexico and Colorado High country near Chama. Land or Death! Zapata Lives! Emiliano Zapata was a revolutionary and agrarian reformer in Mexico. The Tierra Amarilla Land Grant in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado consists of 594,516 acres (2,405.92 km 2) (929 sq miles) [2] of mountainous land ...