New Mexico Office of the State Historian

Los Alamos County--J. J. Bowden

Los Alamos County--J. J. Bowden

Los Alamos County sits in the east Jemez mountains and is named for the community of Los Alamos, its county seat, which in turn was named an Hispanic settlement located here as early as 1880.

This is part of the series, Private Land Claims in the Southwest, submitted by J. J. Bowden in 1969 as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Laws in Oil and Gas at Southern Methodist University.  Volume Five covers the Private Land Claims within the New Mexico counties of Los Alamos, Sandoval, McKinley and Valencia

 

 

more...