It was during this time that Lucien Maxwell, due to rising tensions, sold the Maxwell Land Grant to a group of investors, with the resultant Colfax County War in which more than two hundred people were killed.
U ovim je vremenima Lucien Maxwell zbog rastućih napetosti prodao land grant Maxwell skupini ulagača, a što je rezultiralo okružnim ratovanjem u kojem je poginulo više od dvjesta ljudi.