140 YEARS AGO
Editor’s note: In 1881, tension was running high inm the San Juan country, as ranchers in northern New Mexico accused Colorado officials of shielding a cattlerustling gang led by Ike Stockton out of Durango.
From the August 7, 1881 edition of the (Santa Fe) New Mexican:
A WAR OF WORDS BETWEEN COLORADO AND NEW MEXICO.
In view of the threatened danger of an organized raid upon Rio Arriba c…
