03146nam 2200589Ia 450 991082382830332120230803021136.00-8263-2947-0(CKB)2550000001103371(EBL)1319135(OCoLC)855906784(SSID)ssj0001071332(PQKBManifestationID)11959629(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001071332(PQKBWorkID)11113352(PQKB)10071051(MiAaPQ)EBC1319135(OCoLC)767543668(MdBmJHUP)muse30100(Au-PeEL)EBL1319135(CaPaEBR)ebr10735446(CaONFJC)MIL505829(EXLCZ)99255000000110337120130729e20131968 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrNew Mexico's quest for statehood, 1846-1912[electronic resource] /Robert W. Larson[1st ed.Albuquerque University of New Mexico Press2013, 19681 online resource (416 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8263-2946-2 1-299-74578-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-384) and index.""Cover""; ""CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""I. CONQUEST AND MILITARY RULE""; ""II. FIRST ATTEMPTS""; ""III. THE 1850 CONSTITUTION""; ""IV. BECOMING A TERRITORY""; ""V. INTERNAL STRIFE ""; ""VI. A CHANGING TERRITORY""; ""VII. THE CONSTITUTION OF 1872""; ""VIII. THE FATEFUL HANDSHAKE""; ""IX. STATEHOOD AND THE SANTA FE RING""; ""X. THE CONSTITUTION OF 1889""; ""XI. FREE SILVER AND POPULISM""; ""XII. A NEW ERA""; ""XIII. THE KNOX BILL""; ""XIV. THE JOINTURE MOVEMENT""; ""XV. THE ENABLING ACT""; ""XVI. THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF 1910""; ""XVII. THE FINAL STEPS""; ""CHAPTER NOTES""""BIBLIOGRAPHY""""INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y"" Why did New Mexico remain so long in political limbo before being admitted to the Union as a state? Combining extensive research and a clear and well-organized style, Robert W. Larson provides the answers to this question in a thorough and comprehensive account of the territory's extraordinary six-decade struggle for statehood. This book is no mere chronology of political moves, however. It is the history of a turbulent frontier state, sweeping into the current almost every colorful character of the territory. Not only politicians but ranchers, outlaws, soldiers, newspapermen, Indians, mercState governmentsNew MexicoHistoryNew MexicoPolitics and government1848-1950State governmentsHistory.320.9/78.9Larson Robert W.1927-1710224MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910823828303321New Mexico's quest for statehood, 1846-19124100662UNINA