Land grants in New Mexico and Colorado were awarded to individuals and communities by the Spanish and Mexican governments to encourage settlement and...

County, Colorado. This 1841 land grant was one of the largest contiguous private landholdings in the history of the United States. The New Mexico communities...

Amarilla Land Grant in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado consists of 594,516 acres (2,405.92 km2) (929 sq miles) of mountainous land. The government...

Cristo Land Grant in the San Luis Valley of southern Colorado and northern New Mexico consists of 1,000,000 acres (4,000 km2) of mostly arid land. It was...

grant area and the village of Las Trampas. Land grants in New Mexico and Colorado Garcia y Griego, L. M. "Community Land Grants in New Mexico: some background"...

the form of land grants. The U.S. government would later list 282 Spanish and Mexican land grants in New Mexico and Colorado totaling in area 34,653,346...

territories, proposed and failed states, unrecognized breakaway states, international and interstate purchases, cessions, and land grants, and historical military...

south of the New Mexico–Colorado border and 85 miles west of Texas. Ratón is Spanish for mouse. Raton Pass had been used by Spanish explorers and Native Americans...

This is a list of land-grant colleges and universities in the United States of America and its associated territories. Land-grant institutions are often...

grants of land were made to prospective settlers in 1836 and 1841 and the town of San Antonio del Rio Colorado was legally established in 1842. New Mexico...

miles (11 km) south of the Colorado-New Mexico border. Chama is located on the Rio Chama, 6.5 miles (10 km) south of the Colorado border. According to the...

New Mexico (Spanish: Nuevo México [ˈnweβo ˈmexiko] ; Navajo: Yootó Hahoodzo Navajo pronunciation: [jòːtʰó hɑ̀hòːtsò]) is a state in the Southwestern region...

passed along the mountains. In the south, in the San Luis Valley, early Mexican families established themselves in large land grants (later contested by the...

enabled the rapid settlement of new farm and ranch lands as well as mining centers. Overall, government land grants to Western US railroads during the...

Worldstatesmen.org: Provinces of New Spain Alta California grants in UC Library System Calisphere Mexican Land Grants of Santa Clara County at the University...

river Colorado until it intersects the present line between the United States and Mexico." The new border included a few miles of the Colorado River at...

Land Water People Time (Cultural Guide) (February 11, 2014). "A new Rocky Mountain high: Colorado open for cannabis tourism—The Santa Fe New Mexican:...

not-for-profit preconditions Grant (law), a term in conveyancing Spanish and Mexican land grants in New Mexico Spanish land grants in Florida Grant v Torstar Corp,...

Cristo Land Grant awarded by the government of New Mexico to the Carlos Beaubien family in 1843. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo annexed northern Mexico to...

historical region of Santa Fe de Nuevo México, today the US state of New Mexico (Nuevo México), southern Colorado, and other parts of the Southwestern United...

while living in Nuevo México. the family then moved to Grants, New Mexico. Cristóbal, the son of Juan de Vaca, was born in colonial Mexico City around...

ISBN 9780826350916. Malcolm Ebright, Land Grants and Lawsuits in Northern New Mexico University of New Mexico Press (1994) Joseph G. Dawson III, Doniphan's...

"provides grants and some financial support in Crestone/Baca, Colorado to qualified religious and spiritual projects." The foundation granted land in the area...

states and two Mexican states. The name Colorado derives from the Spanish language for "colored reddish" due to its heavy silt load. Starting in the central...

North Americans and US citizens. To reinforce Mexican claims of what is now part of Colorado, Gov. Manuel Armijo creates land grants to attract settlers...

New Mexican Land Grants: An Ethical Travesty (1994). Herbert O. Brayer, William Blackmore: The Spanish-Mexican Land Grants in New Mexico and Colorado...

Colorado Springs, Colorado, and 326 miles (525 km) south of Denver. Las Vegas was established in 1835 after a group of settlers received a land grant...

a region in south-central Colorado with a small portion overlapping into New Mexico. The valley is approximately 122 miles (196 km) long and 74 miles...

and Wisconsin, while the Western public land states are Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico,...

Taos is a town in Taos County in the north-central region of New Mexico in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Initially founded in 1615, it was intermittently...