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Lucien Bonaparte Maxwell (September 14, 1818 – July 25, 1875) was a mountain man, rancher, scout, and farmer who at one point owned more than 1,700,000 acres (6,900 km 2). Along with Thomas Catron and Ted Turner, Maxwell was one of the largest private landowners in United States history.
1. März 2017 · Born near Kaskaskia, Ill., in 1818 to Irish immigrant Hugh Maxwell and Odile Menard of French Canadian descent, Lucien was perhaps destined for a promising future on the frontier. From the beginning he was surrounded by Western traders, town builders and readers of the recently published journals of Meriwether Lewis, William Clark ...
Lucien Maxwell was a legend in northern New Mexico, the owner of the Maxwell Land Grant, a rancher, merchant, and all-around entrepreneur.
The Largest Land Grant in History – Biography of Lucien Maxwell. Santa Fe Trail – Highway to the Southwest. A Tale of Lucien B. Maxwell, owner of the largest land grant in American history, and his activities along the Santa Fe Trail. By William H. Ryus.
HISTORY. It’s Hard to Believe One Man Held Sway Over All This Land. But it’s true. In the mid-1800s Lucien Maxwell, a dauntless former mountain man, ruled a huge chunk of New Mexico and...
Born in 1818, Maxwell was the son of a well-to-do merchant in Kaskaskia, Illinois, who traveled west to learn the fur trade after his father died in 1834. He crossed paths with the legendary Kit Carson when they worked together on the Arkansas River in the mid-1830s, and the two men became lifelong friends.
16. Aug. 2017 · Pathfinder Lucien Bonaparte Maxwell purchased the adobe buildings in 1872. When he died, Fort Sumner became the ranchero of his widow, Ana Maria de la Luz Beaubien. The 1880 census records the following people in the household: Luz Maxwell, 48; Pedro Maxwell, 32; Paulita Maxwell, 16; Odile Maxwell, 10; and Deluvina Maxwell, 22. The sparsely ...
