Grants in Popular Culture
- Author Robison Wells has stated that, in his novel On Second Thought, the town of Alamitos is based on Grants, NM, which is the historical name before it was renamed after the mining camp. Wells lived in Grants during the late 1990s.
- Scenes from the movie 21 Grams starring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts were also filmed in Grants.
- In the Louis L'Amour book Flint, Los Alamitos (Grants) and the nearby El Malpais provided some of the settings for the main character in the book.
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