Anyone who has even a casual acquaintance with the history of New Mexico in the nineteenth century has heard of the Santa Fe Ring--seekers of Power and wealth in the post-Civil War period famous for public corruption and for dispossessing landholders.
David Caffey looks beyond myth and symbol to explore.
Surprisingly, however, scholars have alluded to the Ring but never really described this shadowy entity, which to this day remains a kind of black hole in New Mexico\'s Territorial history.
Anyone who has even a casual acquaintance with the history of New Mexico in the nineteenth century has heard of the Santa Fe Ring--seekers of Power and wealth in the post-Civil War period famous for public corruption and for dispossessing landholders
