Guide to the Maxwell Grant
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Maxwell Land Grant Company
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Published: 1889
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: María E. Montoya
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2005-05-15
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 0700613811
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen American settlers arrived in the southwestern borderlands, they assumed that the land was unencumbered by property claims. But, as María Montoya shows, the Southwest was no empty quarter simply waiting to be parceled up. Although Anglo farmers claimed absolute rights under the Homestead Act, their claims were contested by Native Americans who had lived on the land for generations, Mexican magnates like Lucien Maxwell who controlled vast parcels under grants from Mexican governors, and foreign companies who thought they had purchased open land. The result was that the Southwest inevitably became a battleground between land regimes with radically different cultural concepts. The struggle over the Maxwell Land Grant, a 1.7-million-acre tract straddling New Mexico and Colorado, demonstrates how contending parties reinterpreted the meaning of property to uphold their claims to the land. Montoya reveals how those claims, with their deep historical and racial roots, have been addressed to the satisfaction of some and the bitter frustration of others. Translating Property describes how European and American investors effectively mistranslated prior property regimes into new rules that worked to their own advantage--and against those who had lived on the land previously. Montoya explores the legal, political, and cultural battles that swept across the Southwest as this land was drawn into world market systems. She shows that these legal issues still have real meaning for thousands of Mexican Americans who continue to fight for land granted to their families before the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, or for continuing communal access to land now claimed by others. This new edition of Montoya’s book brings the land grant controversy up to date. A year after its original publication, the Colorado Supreme Court tried once more to translate Mexican property ideals into the U.S. system of legal rights; and in 2004 the Government Accounting Office issued the federal government’s most comprehensive effort to sort out the tangled history of land rights, concluding that Congress was under no obligation to compensate heirs of land grants. Montoya recaps these recent developments, further expanding our understanding of the battles over property rights and the persistence of inequality in the Southwest.
Author: William Aloysius Keleher
Publisher: William Keleher
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780826306784
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text focuses on the circumstances surrounding the Maxwell Land Grant in New Mexico and southern Colorado. The grant involved more than two thousand square miles of land. This work reviews the history of the land in question from the days of Mexican rule under Governor Armijo, to the time of Vigilantes in Raton. It also speaks of the ownership controversy, wherein the Utes, Apaches, Spanish and Americans all thought that they were the true land owners.
Author: Joseph Miller
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Published: 2011-12-01
Total Pages: 608
ISBN-13: 1447495330
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author: J. Frank Dobie
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2021-04-25
Total Pages: 165
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis guide book is a bibliography of books about the American West by various authors, compiled by the literary critic J. Franck Dobie. The list is subdivided along themes associated with the different aspects of life in the West such as Native American culture, Spanish influences, French influences, Texas Rangers, Missionaries, Women pioneers and Mountain men culture, among others. Each aspect is preceded by a brief discussion of the topic before the list of books themed on the subject.
Author: F. Stanley
Publisher: Sunstone Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 0865346526
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this volume, published originally in an edition of 250 numbered and signed copies, Stanley (Father Stanley Francis Louis Crocchiola) takes on the task of telling the complex story of the Maxwell Land Grant.
Author: Walter Brown Gibson
Publisher: Nostalgia Ventures
Published: 2008-03
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781932806588
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Dept. of the Interior
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Published: 1898
Total Pages: 1348
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