R. E. Twitchell’s essay on Sandoval County, published in 1917, is used here as the background description to Chapter Thirteen of Volume Five of the six volume series Private Land Claims in the Southwest by J. J. Bowden.
Private Land Claims in the Southwest was 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.
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