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Land rights records for property included in the Maxwell Land Grant

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Description
Assorted court records and land deeds related to land originally included in the Maxwell Land Grant. Includes a quit-claim deed for land in San Miguel County, New Mexico, between Madison Calhoun and Henry M. Porter (1882); court records related to Eliza C. Winburn vs. Alice Clara Heck et al. (including Lucien B. Maxwell, Charles Beaubien, and the Maxwell Land Company), 1930; a warranty deed between J.A. Heyde and Company and Thomas P. James for land in Union County, New Mexico (1906); a grid map of land belonging to the Vinson Land Company in Otero County, Colorado; and court papers for Walter Clement et al. vs. William H. Dyer and Charles F. Whitcher regarding the Maxwell Land Grant and Good Fairy Mine (1897). Also includes a manuscript entitled "Fortunes in Western Lands," which speculates on the future of gold mining and territory expansion in the western United States, and some business correspondence belonging to Charles Springer, mainly related to his highway activities in Oklahoma and New Mexico. The donor, Rev. F. Stanley, was the author of The grant that Maxwell bought (1952).
Type
Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Call number
mssHM 73257-73268
Creator
Maxwell Land Grant Company(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Gift of Rev. F. Stanley, April 2, 1957.
Associated people
Avery, Cyrus S.,
Calhoun, Madison,
Doggett, V. A.,
Hardy, Charles,
Springer, Charles,
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