Philmont : a history of New Mexico's Cimarron country / Lawrence R. Murphy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murphy, Lawrence R., 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colfax County (N.M.)--History.

Colfax County (N.M.).

Philmont Scout Ranch.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates, 261 pages) : maps

Edition:

[First edition]

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 1972.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This classic account is the first and still the best comprehensive history of the Colfax County area of northeastern New Mexico.

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Preface; Table of Contents; I. The Cimarron Country; Life Zones of the Philmont Area; The Wildlife; II. Prehistoric Inhabitants; People of the Plains and the Pueblos; The Ponil People; III. Indians and Spaniards; The Indian Invasion; The Conquest of La Jicarilla; IV. Explorers, Traders, and Trappers; Exploring the Great Southwest; Blazing the Santa Fe Trail; Across the American Desert; Fur Trapping in the Southern Rockies; V. The Beaubien and Miranda Land Grant; Obtaining a Grant of Land; Philmont's First Settlers; War and Massacre

The Founding of Rayado; The Army at Philmont; Indian Attacks at Rayado; VI. Lucien B. Maxwell: Empire Builder; The Cimarron Indian Agency; The Indian Crisis at Maxwell's; VII. Bonanza on Baldy Mountain; Gold Rush on Maxwell's Ranch; Developing the Moreno Valley; Prosperity and Growth in 1868; The Aztec Strike; Continuing Moreno Valley Boom; Decline of the Baldy District; VIII. Redskins and Britishers; Trouble at the Cimarron Agency; Survey and Sale of the Beaubien Grant; Agents and Indians: Continuing Trouble for All; Deterioration of the Cimarron Agency; Removal of the Cimarron Agency

IX. The Colfax County War; The Death of Parson Tolby; Indecision in Washington: The Land Office and the Maxwell Grant Case; The Supreme Court Decision; Final Efforts of Parson McMains; X. Cowboys and Cattlemen; The Abreus of Rayado; The Urraca Ranch; Ponil Pastures: Ranching in Philmont's North-Country; The Heck and Nash Ranches; Cowboys at Early Philmont; XI. Revival of Baldy Mining; Lode Mining Along Ute Creek; Boom in the Moreno Valley; Modern Placer Mining at Baldy; Into the Heart of Baldy: The Deep Tunnel and Aztec Mines; The Cimarroncito Mining District; XII. Tracks, Ties, and Timber

The St. Louis, Rocky Mountain and Pacific; The Cimarron and Northwestern; Logging in Philmont's North-Country; Boom in Cimarron; XIII. Ranching in the Twentieth Century; McCormick and Webster's Urraca Ranch; Colonizing the Rayado; Waite Phillips; XIV. The End of Baldy Mining; Excitement on Aztec Ridge; Frustrations of Baldy Mining; Last Years of the Aztec; Death of the Baldy District; XV. A Paradise for Scouting; Phillips's First Donation; Philturn Rockymountain Scoutcamp; Philmont Becomes a Scout Ranch; Beginnings of Philmont Scout Ranch; Development of Philmont's Program; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780826323453

0826323456

OCLC:

577864605