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Las Vegas, often known simply as Vegas, is a city in and the county seat of San Miguel County, New Mexico, United States. [ 6] Once two separate municipalities (one a city and the other a town), both were named Las Vegas: West Las Vegas ("Old Town") and East Las Vegas ("New Town"). They are separated by the Gallinas River and retain distinct ...
The Territory of New Mexico was an organized incorporated territory of the United States from September 9, 1850, [ 1] until January 6, 1912. [ 2] It was created from the U.S. provisional government of New Mexico, as a result of Nuevo México becoming part of the American frontier after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
Four Corners. Coordinates: 36°59′56.3″N 109°02′42.6″W. The Four Corners region is the red circle in this map. The Four Corners states are highlighted in orange. False-color satellite image of the Four Corners. Bright red lines are vegetation along the major rivers of the area. A young Navajo boy on horseback in Monument Valley.
The Las Vegas Paiute Tribe has a reservation, the Las Vegas Indian Colony, at 36°21′02″N 115°20′27″W in Clark County adjacent to the northwest corner of Las Vegas. The reservation was first established in 1911 and today is 3,850 acres (1,560 ha) large. In 1992, 52 tribal members lived on the reservation and 71 people were enrolled in ...
U.S. Provisional Government of New Mexico 1846–1850. Unorganized territory created by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848–1850. State of Deseret (extralegal), 1849–1850. Proposed state of New Mexico, 1850. Territory of New Mexico, 1850–1912 [ 1] Gadsden Purchase of 1853. American Civil War, 1861–1865.
Montezuma is an unincorporated community in San Miguel County, New Mexico, United States. It is located approximately five miles northwest of the city of Las Vegas . The town was best known for many years for its natural hot springs, [ 2] and was in fact called "Los Ojos Calientes". [ 3] or "Las Vegas Hot Springs" until the late 19th century.
Las Vegas soon prospered as a stop on the Santa Fe Trail. During the Mexican–American War in 1846, Stephen W. Kearny delivered an address at the plaza from atop what is thought to be the surviving Dice Apartments building, claiming New Mexico for the United States. In 1854, visiting attorney W. W. H. Davis wrote that the plaza "more resembled ...
A modern small-scale cattle drive in New Mexico. Cattle drives were a major economic activity in the 19th and early 20th century American West , particularly between 1850s and 1910s. In this period, 27 million cattle were driven from Texas to railheads in Kansas , for shipment to stockyards in St. Louis and points east, and direct to Chicago .