This timeline of the American Old West is a chronologically ordered list of events significant to the development of the American West as a region of the continental United States. Eventually Garrett made his way to Santa Fe safely where Billy the Kid and the others were jailed.1882 hand-colored map depicting the western half of the continental United States There were serious threats made to Garrett and violence looked imminent but the train car wasn’t rushed.
The Las Vegas mob was intent on not letting the train depart.
To get out of the Las Vegas train station in one piece, the party had to hole up in one of the train cars with shotguns at the ready.
Garrett, his deputies and the prisoners after riding up from Fort Sumner boarded the train in Las Vegas for the 55 mile trip to Santa Fe. The story is that one of the prisoners Pat Garret was transporting along with the Kid had a lot of enemies in Las Vegas. Las Vegas was a stop on the trip to Santa Fe. There was the well known incident when sheriff Pat Garrett was transporting the arrested Billy the Kid to the Santa Fe jail from the Fort Sumner area to the southeast. Actually, many well known characters passed through the town at one time or another.
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The legendary Hollywood cowboy Tom Mix shot some of his movies in Las Vegas New Mexico and to this day the town is a popular movie shoot location.Ī case could be made that Las Vegas was one of the wilder old west towns of New Mexico. Las Vegas also found it’s place in early Hollywood film making. Today, Las Vegas New Mexico is a treasure trove of nineteenth century structures, the town now has more than nine hundred buildings on the National Register of Historic Places. Today, when you visit Las Vegas, New Mexico, many of the old buildings you see were constructed shortly after the railroad arrived. Between the railroad cattle trade, the key geographic location on the Santa Fe Trail and the colorful characters of the old west attracted to this new boom town, it’s probably an understatement to say that Las Vegas New Mexico was one of the New Mexico towns that changed dramatically during all the way from the 1820’s to the twentieth century. In addition to the building construction, the railroad helped make Las Vegas a cattle rail head. In some respect, the railroad laying it’s tracks through a town had the same effect as the excitement of the California Gold Rush. What was at one time a small settlement would become a booming town almost overnight. During the late 1800’s, the railroads out towns of the old west on the map. When the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad reached Las Vegas New Mexico mu ch later in 1880, everything changed. There are several locations in New Mexico today where tourists can still see the wagon ruts dating back to the 1800’s. Quite a lot of trading went on there during the Santa Fe Trail days. The Santa Fe Trail was established as a trade route between the U.S. Las Vegas found itself directly on the Santa Fe Trail and was considered the largest town between it and Dodge City Kansas. Las Vegas New Mexico was a major location long before the railroad arrived.
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