Download or read book Translating Property written by María E. Montoya and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2005-05-15 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When 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.
Download or read book The American West written by Dee Brown and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-25 with total page 815 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the railroads opened up the American West to settlers in the last half of the 19th Century, the Plains Indians made their final stand and cattle ranches spread from Texas to Montana. Eminent Western author Dee Brown here illuminates the struggle between these three groups as they fought for a place in this new landscape. The result is both a spirited national saga and an authoritative historical account of the drive for order in an uncharted wilderness, illustrated throughout with maps, photographs and ephemera from the period.
Download or read book The American West 1840 1900 written by Barbara Currie and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American West 1840 1895 written by R. A. Rees and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines life in the American West, from the time when American Indians flourished, through the spread of white settlers to the close of the frontier and the end of the battle for the Plains.
Download or read book The American West written by Michael P. Malone and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the history of the American West during the twentieth century, tracing economical, political, social, and cultural developments in the region from 1900 to the turn of the twenty-first century, in an updated edition that includes new sections that explore the roles of ethnic groups in the new West, urban developments, western women, and events since the mid-1980s. Original.
Download or read book Go West Young Man Westward Expansion 1840 1900 written by The Open The Open Courses Library and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-14 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go West Young Man! Westward Expansion, 1840-1900 U.S. History In the middle of the nineteenth century, farmers in the "Old West"--the land across the Allegheny Mountains in Pennsylvania--began to hear about the opportunities to be found in the "New West." They had long believed that the land west of the Mississippi was a great desert, unfit for human habitation. But now, the federal government was encouraging them to join the migratory stream westward to this unknown land. For a variety of reasons, Americans increasingly felt compelled to fulfill their "Manifest Destiny," a phrase that came to mean that they were expected to spread across the land given to them by God and, most importantly, spread predominantly American values to the frontier. Chapter Outline: Introduction The Westward Spirit Homesteading: Dreams and Realities Making a Living in Gold and Cattle The Loss of American Indian Life and Culture The Impact of Expansion on Chinese Immigrants and Hispanic Citizens The Open Courses Library introduces you to the best Open Source Courses.
Download or read book Three Frontiers written by Dean L. May and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-08-26 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the values and aspirations of settlers in the Far West. It compares rural people who settled in the Willamette Valley in the 1840s, the Utah Valley in the 1850s, and the Boise Valley in the 1860s. The Oregon and Utah settlers tried with differing degrees of success to resist the modernizing trends represented by Idaho, but ultimately adopted the individualistic, commercial, and acquisitive values that prevailed in the New West. How did Americans move away from a culture centering on family and kin and from attitudes that valued and protected the land, not for its commercial worth, but as the base of support for future generations? What led to our present tendency to pursue individual pleasure and material well-being at the expense of communal and broader societal well-being? These are questions central to this comparative study of three peoples who pioneered the American frontiers.
Download or read book The Writer s Guide to Everyday Life in the Wild West written by Candy Vyvey Moulton and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides period information on clothes and accessories, food, architecture, medicine, education, communications, crime, and money.
Download or read book Translating Property written by Maria E. Montoya and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-03-29 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Mexico lost its northern territories to the United States in 1848, battles over property rights and ownership have remained intense. This turbulent, vividly narrated story of the Maxwell Land Grant, a single tract of 1.7 million acres in northeastern New Mexico, shows how contending groups reinterpret the meaning of property to uphold their conflicting claims to land. The Southwest has been and continues to be the scene of a collision between land regimes with radically different cultural conceptions of the land's purpose. We meet Jicarilla Apaches, whose identity is rooted in a sense of place; Mexican governors and hacienda patrons seeking status as New World feudal magnates; "rings" of greedy territorial politicians on the make; women finding their own way in a man's world; Anglo homesteaders looking for a place to settle in the American West; and Dutch investors in search of gargantuan returns on their capital. The European and American newcomers all "mistranslated" the prior property regimes into new rules, to their own advantage and the disadvantage of those who had lived on the land before them. Their efforts to control the Maxwell Land Grant by wrapping it in their own particular myths of law and custom inevitably led to conflict and even violence as cultures and legal regimes clashed.
Download or read book The American West 1840 1895 written by Dave Martin and published by Hodder Murray. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combine engaging tasks and effective exam preparation with this depth study for Schools History Project GCSE specifications. Essential The American West 1840-1895: The Struggle for the Plains is an entry-level textbook which covers the required content and skills for exam success with any board. It investigates the lives of the Sioux prior to the settlers' arrival, looks at why people moved to the Great Plains, considers how the different waves of settlers affected the Plains Indians, examines law and order and analyses the definitive conflicts between the settlers and the Indians. Clear, relevant and useful, it is ideal for mixed-ability teaching and helps students become better thinkers. - Ensure your students really understand the issues with creative tasks which build content knowledge and confidence while catering to a variety of learning styles. - Develop your students' exam skills with 'Exam Busters' features throughout which provide effective revision strategies and advice on how to understand the demands of GCSE. - Utilise a range of active learning techniques and thinking skills strategies to make exam preparation both fun and relevant to students' wider learning objectives.
Download or read book The American West A New Interpretive History written by Robert V. Hine and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fully revised and updated new edition of the classic history of western America The newly revised second edition of this concise, engaging, and unorthodox history of America’s West has been updated to incorporate new research, including recent scholarship on Native American lives and cultures. An ideal text for course work, it presents the West as both frontier and region, examining the clashing of different cultures and ethnic groups that occurred in the western territories from the first Columbian contacts between Native Americans and Europeans up to the end of the twentieth century.
Download or read book U S History written by P. Scott Corbett and published by . This book was released on 2023-04-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Printed in color. U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.
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Download or read book Mercury and the Making of California written by Andrew Scott Johnston and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2013-09-15 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the development of California and the relationship between the built environments of the mercury-mining industry and the emerging ethnic identities and communities in California, Mercury and the Making of California brings mercury to its rightful place alongside gold and silver in their defining roles in the development of the American West. In this pioneering study, Andrew Johnston examines the history of California’s mercury-mining industry—and its defining role in the development of the American West. Mercury was crucial to refining gold and silver; therefore, its production and use were vital to creating and securing power and wealth in the west. The first industrialized mining in California, mercury mining had its own particular organization and structure shaped by powers first formed within the Spanish Empire, transformed by British imperial ambitions, and manipulated by groups made wealthy and powerful by controlling it. In addition, the landscapes of work and camp and the relations among the many groups—Mexicans, Chileans, Spanish, British, Irish, Cornish, American, and Chinese—throughout the industry’s history illustrate the complex history of race and ethnicity in the American West. Combining rich documentary sources with a close examination of the existing physical landscape, Andrew Johnston explores both the detail of everyday work and life in the mines and the larger economic and social structures in which mercury mining was enmeshed, revealing the significance of mercury mining to Western history.
Download or read book The American West written by Anne M. Butler and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-08-06 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing events from the pre-history to the present day, this book offers a concise and accessible history of the American West. Explores the complex interactions between and among cultures in the American West Chronologically organized and informed by the latest scholarship Grounded in attention to race, class, gender, and the environment, the text focuses on social, economic, and political forces that shaped the lived experiences of diverse westerners and influenced the patterns of western history.
Download or read book The American West 1840 95 written by Robin Wichard and published by Hodder Education. This book was released on 1998 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text examines the nature of the Great Plains, the beliefs and lifestyle of the Plains Indians and the reasons for, and impact of, white settlement on the Plains. Other topics include the life and work of cowboys, law and order, and farming the Plains. The ultimate struggle for dominance of the territories is given coverage and the investigations encourage an evaluation and understanding of the reasons for conflict. Major events such as Sand Creek and the Plains Wars, the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and the final destruction of Indian resistance at Wounded Knee Creek in 1890 are all studied. Also included are broad perspectives on the impact of government and the railways on the American West.
Download or read book The Oxford History of the American West written by Clyde A. Milner and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indeed, to enlarge on Wallace Stegner's singular phrase, the West is America, only more so.
