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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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...