Pecos may refer to:

Places

Pecos River The Pecos River ( es, Río Pecos) originates in north-central New Mexico and flows into Texas, emptying into the Rio Grande. Its headwaters are on the eastern slope of the Sangre de Cristo mountain range in Mora County north of Pecos, New Mexic ...

, rises near Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States * Pecos, Texas, a city in Reeves County, Texas, United States *

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 **

Pecos Spring Pecos Spring is a spring, 1.1 miles (3 km) northeast of Sheffield, in Pecos County, Texas. It lies at an elevation of 2060 feet. Pecos Spring was emitted from the Edwards and associated limestones of the Edwards-Trinity (Plateau) aquifer. ...

, a spring * Pecos, New Mexico, a village, United States *

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 *

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

* 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 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 *

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 archæ ...

, a division of all known Ancient Pueblo Peoples culture into chronological phases * Pecos League, an independent professional baseball league headquartered in Houston *

Oryx/Pecos Oryx/Pecos is a proprietary operating system developed from scratch by Bell Labs beginning in 1978 for the express purpose of running AT&T's large-scale PBX switching equipment. The operating system was first used with AT&T's flagship ''System 7 ...

, 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)

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The Gun Packer ''The Gun Packer'' is a 1919 American short silent Western film directed by John Ford. Filming began on March 25, 1919, under the working title ''Out Wyoming Way''. Just two months later, ''The Gun Packer'' was released by Universal Studios as ...

'', 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 ** '' West of the Pecos'', 1945 film * ''

The Chinese Paymaster ''The Chinese Paymaster'' is the twenty-fourth novel in the long-running Nick Carter-Killmaster series of spy novels. Carter is a US secret agent, code-named N-3, with the rank of Killmaster. He works for AXE – a secret arm of the US intellig ...

'', 1967 novel

Places

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