1919 Map of Antelope Wells

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Isolated cattle ranches and high-desert watering points define this borderland landscape surveyed in the years leading up to 1919. The map details the rugged intersection of the San Luis Mountains and the Whitewater Mts, where survival depended on a network of scattered resources like High Lonesome Wells, McDunn's Well, and Nations Tank. Family-named outposts such as Culbersons Ranch, Lewis Ranch, and the T. Pendleton Ranch are documented along the drainage of Deer Creek, illustrating the early 20th-century ranching footprint in this corner of New Mexico.