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.
Barclay's Old Fort , 93 . Amsterdam , 116 , 119 . Barela , Juan , 59 . An Act to Confirm Private Land Barlow , Sanderson & Co. - owners Claims in the Territory of New of Mail & Express , 71 , 72 . Mexico , June 21 , 1860.
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.
They prefer to peel the bark in the winter time, from huge pine trees of the forests of the Maxwell Grant, and hunt and fish for a livelihood in the summer than to settle down to a monotonous agricultural life in the fertile valley of ...
How a land empire was acquired and consolidated in 19th century New Mexico.
O. P. McMains and the Maxwell Land Grant Conflict
Today it is known as the birthplace of Conrad Hilton and the site of the first Hilton Hotel , located in his family's adobe house near the train station . The name San Antonio is a holdover from the seventeenth century , when Spanish ...