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Book Maxwell Land Grant

Download or read book Maxwell Land Grant written by William Aloysius Keleher and published by William Keleher. This book was released on 1983 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 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.

Book The Maxwell Land Grant

Download or read book The Maxwell Land Grant written by Jim Berry Pearson and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How a land empire was acquired and consolidated in 19th century New Mexico.

Book Maxwell Land Grant

Download or read book Maxwell Land Grant written by William Aloysius Keleher and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the United States acquired New Mexico by invasion and conquest, it inherited a land grant problem of considerable magnitude. This problem continued for decades until 1870 when Congress suddenly declined to act at all on any New Mexico grant claim including the 1841 Maxwell Land Grant which embraced almost two million acres.

Book Translating Property

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 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Mexico lost its northern territories to the US in 1948 battles over property rights have remained intense. This text shows how contending groups reinterpret the meaning of property to uphold their conflicting claims to land.

Book The Grant That Maxwell Bought

Download or read book The Grant That Maxwell Bought written by F. Stanley and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 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.

Book The Maxwell Land Grant

Download or read book The Maxwell Land Grant written by Jim Berry Pearson and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How a land empire was acquired and consolidated in 19th century New Mexico.

Book Uniting Mountain   Plain

Download or read book Uniting Mountain Plain written by Kathleen A. Brosnan and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how the people of Denver, Colorado Springs, and Pueblo pushed their cities to the top of the new urban hierarchy following the discovery of gold, marginalizing the indigenous peoples.

Book Translating Property

    Book Details:
  • Author : María E. Montoya
  • Publisher : University Press of Kansas
  • Release : 2005-05-15
  • ISBN : 0700613811
  • Pages : 341 pages

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.

Book Maxwell Land Grant

    Book Details:
  • Author : William A. Keleher
  • Publisher : Sunstone Press
  • Release : 2008-01-14
  • ISBN : 1611391962
  • Pages : 218 pages

Download or read book Maxwell Land Grant written by William A. Keleher and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2008-01-14 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the United States acquired New Mexico by invasion and conquest on August 15, 1846, it inherited a land grant problem of considerable magnitude. This problem continued for decades until 1870 when the United States Congress suddenly declined to act at all on any New Mexico grant claim. Among the grants that had been confirmed, however, was the Miranda and Beaubien, or Maxwell Land Grant, and that is the dominant theme of this book. Originally made in 1841 to Guadalupe Miranda and Charles Beaubien under Mexican rule, the Maxwell Land Grant was determined to embrace almost two million acres of land—2,460 square miles. Politicians, Indians, courts, ministers of the gospel, early day settlers, and soldiers, all had their place in the story of the Grant. Governor Manuel Armijo, the last chief executive under Mexican rule, Padre Martinez of Taos, Lucien B. Maxwell, Kit Carson, Charles Ben, Dick Wootton and many another old timer live again in these pages that read like fiction but are, in fact, totally true accounts. WILLIAM A KELEHER (1886–1972) observed first hand the changing circumstances of people and places of New Mexico. Born in Lawrence, Kansas, he arrived in Albuquerque two years later, with his parents and two older brothers. The older brothers died of diphtheria within a few weeks of their arrival. As an adult, Keleher worked for more than four years as a Morse operator, and later as a reporter on New Mexico newspapers. Bidding a reluctant farewell to newspaper work, Keleher studied law at Washington & Lee University and started practicing law in 1915. He was recognized as a successful attorney, being honored by the New Mexico State Bar as one of the outstanding Attorneys of the Twentieth Century. One quickly observes from his writings, and writings about him, that he lived a fruitful and exemplary life. He is also the author of “Turmoil in New Mexico,” “Violence in Lincoln County,” “The Fabulous Frontier,” and “Memoirs,” all from Sunstone Press.

Book O  P  McMains and the Maxwell Land Grant Conflict

Download or read book O P McMains and the Maxwell Land Grant Conflict written by Morris F. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Roadside New Mexico

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  • Author : David Pike
  • Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 0826355692
  • Pages : 512 pages

Download or read book Roadside New Mexico written by David Pike and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised and expanded edition of Roadside New Mexico provides additional information about these sites and includes approximately one hundred new markers, sixty-five of which document the contribution of women to the history of New Mexico.

Book The Pacific Reporter

Download or read book The Pacific Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Comprising all the decisions of the Supreme Courts of California, Kansas, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Montana, Arizona, Nevada, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, Oklahoma, District Courts of Appeal and Appellate Department of the Superior Court of California and Criminal Court of Appeals of Oklahoma." (varies)

Book Mining American

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1916
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 738 pages

Download or read book Mining American written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Frank Springer and New Mexico

Download or read book Frank Springer and New Mexico written by David L. Caffey and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The country Frank Springer rode into in 1873 was one of immense beauty and abundant resources - grass and timber, wild game, precious metals, and a vast bed of commercial-grade coal. It was also a stage upon which dramatic and sometimes violent events played out. A lawyer and newspaperman for the Maxwell Land Grant company and a foe of the speculators known as ""the Santa Fe Ring,"" Springer found himself in the middle of the Colfax County War. A man of many sides, he typified the Gilded Age entrepreneurs who transformed the territorial American Southwest. As president of the Maxwell Land Grant company, Springer led in the development of mining, logging, ranching, and irrigation enterprises. His Supreme Court victory establishing title to the 1.7 million acre Maxwell grant earned him a reputation as a brilliant attorney.

Book The Far Southwest  1846 1912

Download or read book The Far Southwest 1846 1912 written by Howard Roberts Lamar and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Four Corners states during their formative territorial years. Newly revised edition.