The river is dammed at Alamogordo, Avalon[?], and McMillan[?] to help irrigate about 25,000 acres (10,120 hectares) as part of the Carlsbad reclamation project[?] (established in 1906). Texas has also dammed the river at the Red Bluff Dam[?] in the western part of that state. New Mexico and Texas disputed water rights to the river until the federal government settled the dispute in 1949.
At the turn of the century, "West of the Pecos" reffered to the rugged "Wild West" of Texas.
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