Resources

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• Wikipedia
• FamilySearch
• National Archives Military Records Research
• Library of Congress, American Life Histories, Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940 Collection - Colfax County NM
• Internet Archive
• 1879 Colfax County, New Mexico, Brand Directory by Charles Graham
• 1880 Report of the Commissioner of Immigration for Colfax County by Harry Whigham
• 1884 Illustrated New Mexico by William G. Ritch
• 1914 The Spanish Archives of New Mexico by Ralph E. Twitchell
• 1915 Mineral Resources of New Mexico by Fayette A. Jones
• c1920 Americanizing an Industrial Center; an account of experience and procedure in the towns of the St. Louis, Rocky Mountain & Pacific Company in Colfax County, New Mexico by Horace W. Kruse
• 1926-1964 New Mexico Historical Review by Historical Society of New Mexico (many volumes available)  Volume 1  Volume 2  Volume 3
• 1940 Directory of Churches and Religious Organizations in New Mexico
• 1965 The Public Domain in New Mexico, 1854-1891 by Victor Westphall
• 1968 Haunted Highways: The Ghost Towns of New Mexico by Ralph Looney
• 1970 Ghost Towns of the Southwest by Lambert Florin
• 1976 Philmont, a History of New Mexico's Cimarron Country by Lawrence R. Murphy
• 1986 New Mexico in Maps by University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque
• 1988 The Lore of New Mexico by Marta Weigle
• 1988 From Hacienda to Bungalow: Northern New Mexico Houses, 1850-1912 by Agnesa Reeve
• 1995 Registered Places of New Mexico: The Land of Enchantment by Cotton Mather
• 1997 Murder & Justice in Frontier New Mexico, 1821-1846 by Jill Mocho
• 2001 Records of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Colfax County, New Mexico: 1867-1918 by Howard W. Henry
• FindAGrave
• Genealogy Club of Angel Fire, P.O. Box 503, Angel Fire, NM 87710
• Dawson NM Association
• Arthur Joshson Memorial Library
• Eagle Nest Public Library on Facebook
• Fred Macaron Library
• Shuter Library of Angel Fire
• Chronicling America - Library of Congress free online newspaper collection
• University of New Mexico Digital Repository of Historical Newspapers
• Sangre De Cristo Chronicle
• National Register of Historic Places
• New Mexico government website
• Bureau of Land Management - land patents
• Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
• Maps of US - interactive map of New Mexico county formation history
• Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
• Legends of America - Cimarron Route of the Santa Fe Trail in New Mexico
• Legends of America - The Ghosts of Dawson, New Mexico
• Ghosttowns.com - Colfax County
• diVecchia / Frazzini Genealogy by Mark DiVecchio
• Mt. Calvary Cemetery, Raton, New Mexico by Mark DiVecchio
• Dawson, New Mexico by Mark DiVecchio
• GenealogyInc - Colfax County
• Linkpendium - Colfax County
• AHGP - Colfax County
• GenealogyTrails

Books Not Found Online as of Aug 2026

• Assessment Roll for Colfax County, Territory of New Mexico for 1891 by Nancy Robertson
• Coal Town - The Life and Times of Dawson, New Mexico by Toby Smith; published in 1993; ISBN 10 0941270823
• Colfax County Roots: Cemetery and Probate Records by Nancy Robertson; publisher Friends of Raton Anthropology; available at the Arthur Johnson Memorial Library, Raton NM, also at the Denver Public Library, Denver CO (Call # G929.378922 C682), also at the Los Angeles Public Library (Call #GEN 978.91 C695CO), also at the Amarillo Public Library, Amarillo TX, also at the New York Public Library (Call #APR-81-1784)
• Colfax Descendants - New Mexico 1890-1990 by Harold Honeyfeld; publisher Graphic Gold Davis CA; available at the Raton Museum, Raton NM
• Folsom (Union County) 1888-1988 (references to Colfax County) by Centennial Book Committee; publisher Centennial Book Committee; available at the Raton Museum, Raton NM
• Historical Encyclopedia of New Mexico by New Mexico Historical Association, Albuquerque, NM; published in 1947
• Johnson Mesa by Mariana Floyd Buhr; publisher Publishers Press; available at the Arthur Johnson Memorial Library, Raton NM, also at the Raton Museum, Raton NM, also at the Folsom Museum, Folsom NM
• Mace Bowman, Texas Feudist, Western Lawman by James Stephen Peters with Charles Norman Parsons and Marianne Elizabeth Hall-Little; publisher Hartmann Heritage Productions; available at the Dallas Public Library, Dallas TX, also at the New York Public Library (Call #ITR 98-1541)
• Out in God's Country - A History of Colfax County, NM by Larry Murphy; publisher Springer Publishing Company; available at the New York Public Library (Call #IWS-72-1470)
• Records of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Colfax County, NM, 1867-1918 by Howard W. Henry; publisher Genealogy Club of Albuquerque; available at the Denver Public Library, Denver CO (Call # G929.378922 H396re)
• The Chases of Cimarron - Birth of the Cattle Industry in Cimarron Country, 1867-1900 by Ruth W. Armstrong; publisher P.O. Box 7127, Albuquerque NM 87194; available at the New York Public Library (Call #IWS-84-3884)

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