what was the purpose of the maxwell land grant
encouraging settlement
title: Maxwell Air Force Base text: Maxwell Air Force Base Maxwell Air Force Base , officially known as Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base, is a United States Air Force (USAF) installation under the Air Education and Training Command (AETC). The installation is located in Montgomery, Alabama, US. Occupying the site of the first Wright Flying School, it was named in honor of Second Lieutenant William C. Maxwell, a native of Atmore, Alabama. The base is the headquarters of Air University (AU), a major component of Air Education and Training Command (AETC), and is the U.S. Air Force's center for Joint Professional Military Education (PME). The host wing title: Maxwell Land Grant text: remove. It is widely believed that the boundary of the original grant was expanded by Maxwell through fraud. There seems to be a discrepancy as to Lucien's middle name. A 1945 book lists it as Benjamin rather than Bonaparte. In 1870, for reasons that are not clear, Maxwell decided to sell the Grant. A group of financiers, representing an English syndicate, purchased the Grant for a reported price of $1,350,000. Maxwell moved to Santa Fe, and then to Fort Sumner, where he died in 1875. The new owners formed the Maxwell Land Grant and Railway Company. They attempted to remove title: Lucien Maxwell text: had not inherited; his landholdings then peaked at . The entire area is referred to as the Maxwell Land Grant. At the conclusion of the American Civil War, gold was discovered on his property at present-day Baldy Mountain (Colfax County, New Mexico). Maxwell leased land to the miners and sold them supplies. In 1870 he sold most of the land for $1,350,000 to a British company, which incorporated it under the name of the Maxwell Land Grant and Railway Company. A portion of the land was purchased by Matthew Lynch who became the father of placer mining in the region. title: Maxwell (surname) text: Maxwell (surname) Maxwell is a Scottish, Irish, and Jewish surname. It is a habitational name derived from a location near Melrose, in Roxburghshire, Scotland. This name was first recorded in 1144, as "Mackeswell", meaning "Mack's spring (or stream)" (from the Old English "well[a]"). The surname "Maxwell" is also common in Ulster; where it has, in some cases, been adopted as alternate form of the surname "Miskell". The surname "Maxwell" is also used as a Jewish surname, either as an adoption of the Scottish name, or as an Americanization of one of several like-sounding Jewish surnames. The surname "Maxwell" is represented title: Ann Maxwell text: Romance Writers of America RITA Award for Best Historical Romance in 1999 and The Romance Writers of America awarded her a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994. Maxwell spends her free time hiking, fishing for salmon, cooking, gardening, or spending time on the family's boat. She and her husband live in the Pacific Northwest. They have a son, Matthew, and a daughter, Heather, who are now grown. Maxwell's daughter has published several books under the pseudonym Heather Lowell. These books are rewrites of novels previously published under the Silhouette Intimate Moments line These books were in the Silhouette Desire line Ann