Native Americans lingered in the San Mateos well into the 1900s. Stories of depredations by the Apache Kid, and of his demise, became so common and dramatic that in southwestern folklore they may be exceeded only by tales of lost Spanish gold. Perhaps most famous outlaw was the Apache Kid whose supposed grave lies within the Apache Kid Wilderness.
Vicks Peak was named after Victorio, a Mimbreo Apache leader whose territory included much of the south and southwest New Mexico.įamous for defying relocation orders in 1879 and leading his warriors on a two-year reign of terror before he was killed, Victorio is at least as highly regarded as Geronimo or Cochise among Apaches. Much of the now Magdalena Ranger District were a province of the Apache.īands of Apache effectively controlled the Magdalena-Datil region from the seventeenth century until they were defeated in the Apache Wars in the late nineteenth century. Basham noted in his report documenting the archeological history of the Cibola National Forests Magdalena Ranger District, which is almost entirely within Socorro County, that the heritage resources on the district are diverse and representative of nearly every prominent human evolutionary event known to anthropology.
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