J. J. Bowden\'s chapter about private land grants in Valencia County starts with Robert Julyan\'s description from The Place Names of New Mexico, University of New Mexico Press, 1998.
This is a 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, McKinleyand Valencia.