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...

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...

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...

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...

with Utah, Colorado, and Arizona. It also borders the state of Texas to the east and southeast, Oklahoma to the northeast, and the Mexican states of Chihuahua...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

United States. Colorado borders Wyoming to the north, Nebraska to the northeast, Kansas to the east, Oklahoma to the southeast, New Mexico to the south...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

(1949) William Blackmore: Volume One: The Spanish-Mexican Land Grants of New Mexico and Colorado. Bradford-Robinson, Denver. Brayer, Herbert Oliver....

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

new Colorado Territory in February 1861, before the western half was reorganized as the Arizona Territory in February 1863, establishing New Mexico's...

The land grants and ranchos established mapping and land-ownership patterns that are still recognizable in present-day California and New Mexico. The...

of Hispano New Mexicans. The Alianza had affiliates in Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico and San Luis, Colorado. Hispano residents had settled in the areas of...

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...