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The Bell Ranch is a historic ranch in Tucumcari, New Mexico, United States of America. Owned by John Malone since 2010, it is one of the largest privately owned ranches in the United States. [ 2] As of 2021, Malone is the second largest land owner in the country with 2.2 million acres. [ 3] The ranch became a national landmark in 1974.
Valles Caldera National Preserve. Valles Caldera (or Jemez Caldera) is a 13.7-mile (22.0 km) wide volcanic caldera in the Jemez Mountains of northern New Mexico. [ 1] Hot springs, streams, fumaroles, natural gas seeps and volcanic domes dot the caldera floor landscape. [ 4]
Gila Wilderness was designated the world's first wilderness area on June 3, 1924. [ 1] Along with Aldo Leopold Wilderness and Blue Range Wilderness, the 558,014 acre (225,820 ha) (872 sq. mi.) wilderness is part of New Mexico's Gila National Forest. The wilderness is approximately 27 miles (43 km) from north to south and 39 miles (63 km) east ...
The land grants later judged by the U.S. to be legal ranged in size from 200 acres (81 ha) for Cañada Ancha (now a suburb of Santa Fe) to 1,714,765 acres (6,939.41 km 2) for the Maxwell Land Grant on the eastern slope of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains extending northward into Colorado. Although the terms of each grant varied they fell into two ...
While hunting of waterfowl was on the rise in America and Europe, hunters used a wide array of shotguns. Shotguns used included 4 gauge, 6 gauge, 8 gauge, 10 gauge, 12 gauge, 16 gauge, 18 gauge, 20 gauge, 24 gauge, 28 gauge and .410. The 12 gauge turns out to be the most popular with hunters then and now due to its weight to firepower ratio.
The Gadsden Purchase ( Spanish: Venta de La Mesilla "La Mesilla sale") [ 2] is a 29,640-square-mile (76,800 km 2) region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States acquired from Mexico by the Treaty of Mesilla, which took effect on June 8, 1854. The purchase included lands south of the Gila River and west ...
A former mining town that also once contained the only medical facility between Albuquerque and Gallup . Baldy Town. Baldy Mining Camp. Colfax. 1888. 1940. Historic site. The site is part of the Philmont Boy Scout Ranch. It has stone ruins, mill foundations, a chimney, mine tailings, and a smelter slag pile.
Riparian water rights (or simply riparian rights) is a system for allocating water among those who possess land along its path. It has its origins in English common law. Riparian water rights exist in many jurisdictions with a common law heritage, such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and states in the eastern United States. [ 1] Common land ...