There was a group of powerful lawyers and businesspeople who made
illegal land deals in the new Mexico territory was known as Santa Fe ring.
After the Civil War, the Santa Fe Ring came to dominate New Mexico politics for several decades. The men who were loosely tied to this ring exemplified what Mark Twain referred to as the "Gilded Age." Members of the Santa Fe Ring had power, money, few scruples, and plenty of room for advancement.
The Santa Fe law firm of college friends and outsized personalities, Republicans Stephen Benton Elkins and Thomas Benton Catron, was at the heart of the ring.
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