George W. Maxwell papers
Collection
Identifier: Ms-0213
Scope and Contents
This collection contains correspondence, legal documents, financial records, photographs, orders, and printed materials pertaining to ranching, water resources, politics, the Civil War in New Mexico, and other matters. Also included are materials on the Tularosa Community Ditch and water rights on the Tularosa River, Southeastern New Mexico Stock Growers’ Association, Doña Ana County elections of 1894 and 1904, and information on the Tularosa Land and Cattle Company, Las Cruces lawyer S. B. Newcomb, politician Albert Bacon Fall, Congressman Antonio Joseph, pioneer Jewish merchant Louis Freudenthal, Joseph H. Blazer of Blazer’s Mill, La Luz merchant C. Myer, Carrizozo rancher William C. McDonald, politicians W. H. H. Llewellyn and Martin Lohman, rancher James A. Baird, Indian agent Walter M. Luttrell, the Pegg-Finley estate in Philadelphia, and other members of the Maxwell family
Dates
- Majority of material found within 1862 (1883-1913) - 1920
Biographical / Historical
George W. Maxwell was a rancher in Tularosa.
Extent
0.25 Linear Feet (1 Box)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
George W. Maxwell was a rancher in Tularosa. This collection contains correspondence, legal documents, financial records, photographs, orders, and printed materials pertaining to ranching, water resources, politics, the Civil War in New Mexico, and other matters.
Processing Information
Austin Hoover, June 1984
Finding aid revised, 1999, by Linda Blazer and Andrea Conners
- Title
- Guide to the George W. Maxwell papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Austin Hoover, Linda Blazer and Andrea Conners
- Date
- Updated in 1999
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the New Mexico State University Library Archives and Special Collections Repository