Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Montoya, Maria E., frey50

Translating property : the Maxwell Land Grant and the conflict over land in the American West, 1840-1900 / Print Maria E. Montoya. - Lawrence, KS University Press of Kansas 2005 (2002) - xxii, 299 p. ill., maps 24 cm. Paperback book.

Contested boundaries -- Regulating land, labor, and bodies : Mexican married women, peones, and the remains of feudalism -- From hacienda to colony -- Prejudice, confrontation, and resistance : taking control of the grant -- The law of the land : U.S. v. Maxwell Land Grant Company -- The legacy of land grants in the American West.

0700613811 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780700613816 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Land tenure--History--New Mexico--19th century.


Maxwell Land Grant (N.M. and Colo.)--History.
New Mexico--History--1848-
New Mexico--Race relations.

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