Pecos may refer to:
Places
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Pecos River, rises near Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
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Pecos, Texas
Pecos ( ) is the largest city in and the county seat of Reeves County, Texas, United States. It is in the valley on the west bank of the Pecos River at the eastern edge of the Chihuahuan Desert, in the Trans-Pecos region of West Texas and just so ...
, a city in Reeves County, Texas, United States
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Pecos County, Texas
Pecos County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 15,193. The county seat is Fort Stockton. The county was created in 1871 and organized in 1875.. By Glenn Justice and John Leffler. Retri ...
, named for the Pecos River
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Pecos Spring, a spring
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Pecos, New Mexico
Pecos is a village in San Miguel County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 1,392 at the 2010 census, shrinking slower than other parts of San Miguel County, partly because Pecos is within commuting distance of Santa Fe. The village i ...
, a village, United States
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Pecos National Historical Park
Pecos National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park in San Miguel and Santa Fe Counties, New Mexico. The park, operated by the National Park Service, encompasses thousands of acres of landscape infused with historical ...
, a National Historical Park in the U.S. state of New Mexico
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Trans-Pecos
The Trans-Pecos, as originally defined in 1887 by the Texas geologist Robert T. Hill, is the portion of Texas that lies west of the Pecos River. The term is considered synonymous with Far West Texas, a subdivision of West Texas. The Trans-Peco ...
, a region of Texas, United States
Ships
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USS ''Pecos'', the name of two ships of the United States Navy
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USNS ''Pecos'' (T-AO-197), a U.S. Navy fleet replenishment oiler in service since 1989
Other uses
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Pecos Bill
Pecos Bill is a fictional cowboy and folk hero in stories set during American westward expansion into the Southwest of Texas, New Mexico, Southern California, and Arizona. These narratives were invented as short stories in a book by Tex O'Reill ...
, a mythical American cowboy
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Pecos Classification
The Pecos Classification is a chronological division of all known Ancestral Puebloans into periods based on changes in architecture, art, pottery, and cultural remains. The original classification dates back to consensus reached at a 1927 archà ...
, a division of all known Ancient Pueblo Peoples culture into chronological phases
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Pecos League Pecos may refer to:
Places
* Pecos River, rises near Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
* Pecos, Texas, a city in Reeves County, Texas, United States
* Pecos County, Texas, named for the Pecos River
** Pecos Spring, a spring
* Pecos, New Mexico, ...
, an independent professional baseball league headquartered in Houston
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Oryx/Pecos, a proprietary operating system developed by Bell Labs beginning in 1978, consisting of a kernel (Oryx) and the associated processes running on top of it (Pecos)
Pecos Smith
Character in:
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The Gun Packer'', 1919 silent western
* hero of the
Zane Grey
Pearl Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 – October 23, 1939) was an American author and dentist. He is known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized the American fronti ...
novel ''
West of the Pecos'' and its film adaptations:
** ''
West of the Pecos'', 1934 film
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West of the Pecos'', 1945 film
* ''
The Chinese Paymaster'', 1967 novel
See also
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Pecos Bill (disambiguation)
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Peco (disambiguation) PECO is a British manufacturer of model railway accessories.
Peco or PECO may also refer to:
* PECO Energy Company, formerly the Philadelphia Electric Company, now a subsidiary of Exelon
* Panay Electric Company (PECO), an electric power distribut ...
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