Pecos

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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, a village, United States
  • Pecos National Historical Park, a National Historical Park in the U.S. state of New Mexico
  • Trans-Pecos, a region of Texas, United States

Ships

  • USS Pecos, the name of two ships of the United States Navy
  • USNS Pecos (T-AO-197), a U.S. Navy fleet replenishment oiler in service since 1989

Other uses

  • Pecos Bill, a mythical American cowboy
  • Pecos Classification, a division of all known Ancient Pueblo Peoples culture into chronological phases
  • Pecos League, an independent professional baseball league headquartered in Houston
  • 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:

  • The Gun Packer, 1919 silent western
  • hero of the Zane Grey novel West of the Pecos and its film adaptations:
    • West of the Pecos, 1934 film
    • West of the Pecos, 1945 film
  • The Chinese Paymaster, 1967 novel

See also

  • Pecos Bill (disambiguation)
  • Peco (disambiguation)
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