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| Formation | 1889 |
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| Dissolved | 1891 |
| Type | Vigilante group |
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Region served | United States Southwest |
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Las Gorras Blancas (Spanish for "The White Caps") was a group active in the New Mexico Territory and American Southwest in the late 1880s and early 1890s, in response to Anglo-American squatters. Founded in April 1889 by brothers Juan Jose, Pablo, and Nicanor Herrera, with support from vecinos in the New Mexico Territory communities of El Burro, El Salitre, Ojitos Frios, and San Geronimo, in present-day San Miguel County.[1]
- ^ Las Gorras Blancas: The Roots of Nuevomexicano Activism Archived 2011-02-16 at the Wayback Machine by Michael Miller