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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 ...
The Maxwell Land Grant and Railway Company was also allied with the powerful Santa Fe Ring, a group of influential lawyers and politicians who controlled many Western states. [6] The settlers did not like the incursion of the soldiers on to the land, and this caused a great deal of violence between the factions.
Operation Santa Fe (1966) [1] 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment search and destroy operation: Hậu Nghĩa Province: Jun 16: Operation Longstreet [1] ROK 2nd Marine Brigade engineering security operation: Bình Định and Phú Yên Provinces: Jun 17 – 21: Operation Helemano [1] 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment search and destroy ...
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 ...
The Santa Fe Ring of lawyers and politicians, often in league with the Surveyors General, abused the adjudication system for their own benefit. [ 24 ] Among Catron's acquisitions was the 600,000 acres (2,400 km 2 ) Tierra Amarilla Land Grant .
The business saw success mainly due to there being no competition. As a member of the Republican Party political machine known as the Santa Fe Ring, Murphy also wielded considerable power over law enforcement, as Lincoln County Sheriff William J. Brady lived on a cattle ranch that he had purchased using money borrowed from Murphy and Dolan's bank.
During his tenure U.S. Route 66 was rerouted to avoid Santa Fe and instead passed through Albuquerque, New Mexico. The rerouting saves drivers traveling across the state nearly four hours. Legend says Hannett did the rerouting to punish the Republican Santa Fe Ring which had controlled New Mexico politics in the late 19th and early 20th ...
Las Gorras Blancas (Spanish for "The White Caps") was an clandestine organization active in New Mexico Territory in the late 1880s and early 1890s. Often characterized as vigilantes and in response to the Santa Fe Ring of land speculators, ranchers, and homesteaders, mostly Anglo-Americans, Las Gorras Blancas protested the takeover of former common lands of Hispanic residents by acts of ...