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Rand McNally's 1897 map of New Mexico showing land grants recognized by the U.S.(red), not recognized (green), and Indian reservations (yellow).
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 controlling the millions of acres of land which the Spanish and Mexican governments of New Mexico had granted to individuals and communities. The acquisition of grant lands by members of the Santa Fe Ring was facilitated by U.S. courts unfamiliar and unsympathetic to Hispanic land practices which featured allocating most of the land in grants to the common ownership of the first settlers and their descendants.
Many prominent people in New Mexico Territory including future Senator and Secretary of War Stephen Benton Elkins and future Senator Thomas B. Catron were implicated. The Ring figured into the various range wars and feuds such as the Pecos War, Lincoln County War, and the Colfax County War.[1]
The ring name was applied to almost all state politicians in the state capital in Santa Fe, New Mexico, who had near total control of the state during the late 19th and early 20th centuries and were said to turn a blind eye to or be actively involved in corruption. The most infamous period involving the Ring was in the 1870s, when ownership of huge Spanish and Mexican land grants was being sorted out.
^Utley, Robert M. (1990) High Noon in Lincoln: Violence on the Western Frontier. University of New Mexico Press. Chapter 3. ISBN 978-0826312013; OCLC 15629305
The Archdiocese of SantaFe (Latin: Archidioecesis Sanctae Fidei in America Septentrionali, Spanish: Arquidiócesis de SantaFe) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical...
Kermit, he rides to SantaFe to meet with Governor Lew Wallace, who introduces him to a pair of powerful men from the SantaFeRing. They offer a thousand...
As a member of the Republican Party political machine known as the SantaFeRing, Murphy also wielded considerable power over law enforcement, as Lincoln...
transaction in Lincoln. The Murphy-Dolan faction was backed by the infamous SantaFeRing. Problems between the two factions began there, and on February 18,...
(2017). The Lost Pardon of Billy the Kid: An Analysis Factoring in the SantaFeRing, Governor Lew Wallace's Dilemma, and a Territory in Rebellion. Albuquerque...
that ruled New Mexico Territory. This group of men was known as the SantaFeRing. Ring members included Thomas Catron, the attorney general and political...
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media related to New Mexico Territory. David L. Caffey, Chasing the SantaFeRing: Power and Privilege in Territorial New Mexico. Albuquerque, NM: University...
Maxwell Land Grant and Railway Company was also allied with the powerful SantaFeRing, a group of influential lawyers and politicians who controlled many...
Brotherhood of Jesus, who told him of Thomas B. Catron's leadership of the SantaFeRing, a group of ranchers, and government officials who systematically dispossessed...
settlers. Politician and land speculator Thomas Catron, a member of the SantaFeRing, acquired nearly all the land by 1883 but later sold it to a development...
to translate. While the SantaFe, Atchison, and Topeka railroad was built in the 1890s, speculators known as the SantaFeRing, orchestrated schemes to...
Frederick C. Godfrey, were allied to Chisum’s rivals, the House and the SantaFeRing. The first clash happened in October 1876 at the Wiley Cow Camp, about...
the growing power of what became known as the Republican controlled SantaFeRing. Outcries for a nonpartisan investigation were ignored over the protests...
intended to settle and build a ranch together. At the time, the corrupt SantaFeRing was in full swing, and in Lincoln, New Mexico, businessman and former...
New Mexico, she and her husband edited a newspaper and took on the SantaFeRing both in print and in business matters. Morley became involved with the...
David L. (March 15, 2014). Chasing the SantaFeRing: Power and Privilege in Territorial New Mexico (1 ed.). SantaFe: University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 978-0826354426...
American forces led by Stephen W. Kearny captured SantaFe, capital of the Mexican territory of SantaFe de Nuevo México. A code of laws known as the Kearny...
The Historic SantaFe Foundation, in SantaFe, New Mexico, is a nonprofit organization for the preservation, protection, and promotion of the historic...
documentation. While the Atchison, Topeka and SantaFe Railway was built in the 1890s, speculators known as the SantaFeRing, orchestrated schemes to dis-land natives...
$650,000 to a group of Anglo and Hispanic land speculators called the SantaFeRing who quickly marketed it to English investors for $1,350,000 who then...
river through two tributaries: the SantaFe River and Cañada Ancha. Virtually the entire perimeter of the Caja is ringed by cliffs or escarpments. White...
Republicans in Congress and by Stephen Elkins, alleged member of the SantaFeRing. It was passed on March 2, 1867, and shortly after signed into law....
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