LEADER 04699nam 2201009 a 450 001 9910780375903321 005 20230607214123.0 010 $a0-520-92648-X 010 $a1-59734-962-3 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520926486 035 $a(CKB)111087027177564 035 $a(EBL)223634 035 $a(OCoLC)475928611 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000261581 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11217466 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000261581 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10256717 035 $a(PQKB)11491118 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055908 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC223634 035 $a(DE-B1597)520587 035 $a(OCoLC)54117649 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520926486 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL223634 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10050798 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111087027177564 100 $a20010411d2002 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTranslating property$b[electronic resource] $ethe Maxwell Land Grant and the conflict over land in the American West, 1840-1900 /$fMari?a E. Montoya 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (334 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-22744-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 261-277) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. Contested Boundaries --$t2. Regulating Land, Labor, and Bodies: Mexican Married Women, Peones, and the Remains of Feudalism --$t3. From Hacienda to Colony --$t4. Prejudice, Confrontation, and Resistance: Taking Control of the Grant --$t5. The Law of the Land: U.S. v. Maxwell Land Grant Company --$t6. The Legacy of Land Grants in the American West --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aAlthough Mexico lost its northern territories to the United States in 1848, battles over property rights and ownership have remained intense. This turbulent, vividly narrated story of the Maxwell Land Grant, a single tract of 1.7 million acres in northeastern New Mexico, shows how contending groups reinterpret the meaning of property to uphold their conflicting claims to land. The Southwest has been and continues to be the scene of a collision between land regimes with radically different cultural conceptions of the land's purpose. We meet Jicarilla Apaches, whose identity is rooted in a sense of place; Mexican governors and hacienda patrons seeking status as New World feudal magnates; "rings" of greedy territorial politicians on the make; women finding their own way in a man's world; Anglo homesteaders looking for a place to settle in the American West; and Dutch investors in search of gargantuan returns on their capital. The European and American newcomers all "mistranslated" the prior property regimes into new rules, to their own advantage and the disadvantage of those who had lived on the land before them. Their efforts to control the Maxwell Land Grant by wrapping it in their own particular myths of law and custom inevitably led to conflict and even violence as cultures and legal regimes clashed. 606 $aLand tenure$zNew Mexico$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aMaxwell Land Grant (N.M. and Colo.)$xHistory 607 $aNew Mexico$xHistory$y1848- 607 $aNew Mexico$xRace relations 610 $aamerican west. 610 $achicano. 610 $acolonialism. 610 $acolorado. 610 $aethnicity. 610 $afrontier. 610 $ahistory. 610 $ahomestead act. 610 $aindigenous people. 610 $aindigenous rights. 610 $aland development. 610 $aland grant. 610 $aland rights. 610 $alegal history. 610 $alucien maxwell. 610 $amexican americans. 610 $amexican governors. 610 $amexican history. 610 $amexico. 610 $anative american. 610 $anew mexico. 610 $apioneers. 610 $arace. 610 $asettler colonialism. 610 $asettlers. 610 $asettling the west. 610 $asouthwest. 610 $asquatters. 610 $asupreme court. 610 $atreaties. 610 $atreaty of guadalupe hidalgo. 610 $aus courts. 610 $awild west. 615 0$aLand tenure$xHistory 676 $a978.9 700 $aMontoya$b Mari?a E.$f1964-$01558089 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780375903321 996 $aTranslating property$93822209 997 $aUNINA