Translating Property: The Maxwell Land Grant and the Conflict Over Land in the American West, 1840-1900

by Maria E. Montoya

Book Overview

When American settlers arrived in the southwestern borderlands, they assumed that the land was unencumbered by property claims. But, as Mar a 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700613811
• ISBN13: 9780700613816
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 299 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.5"