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Landscapes of fraud : Mission TumacaÌcori, the Baca Float, and the betrayal of the O'odham / Thomas E. Sheridan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sheridan, Thomas E.
- Series:
- Environmental history of the borderlands
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jesuits--Missions--Arizona--History.
- Jesuits.
- Land tenure--Santa Cruz River Valley (Ariz. and Mexico)--History.
- Land tenure.
- Land speculation--Santa Cruz River Valley (Ariz. and Mexico)--History.
- Land speculation.
- Fraud--Santa Cruz River Valley (Ariz. and Mexico)--History.
- Fraud.
- Tohono O'odham Indians--History.
- Tohono O'odham Indians.
- Land settlement--Santa Cruz River Valley (Mexico and Ariz.)--History.
- Land settlement.
- History.
- Missions.
- Arizona.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (303 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Place of Publication:
- Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©2006.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- From the actions of Europeans in the seventeenth century to the real estate deals of the modern era, people making a living off the land in southern Arizona have been repeatedly robbed of their way of life. History has recorded more than three centuries of speculative failures that never amounted to much but left dispossessed people in their wake. This book seeks to excavate those failures, to examine the new social spaces the schemers struggled to create and the existing social spaces they destroyed.
- Contents:
- Production of space in the Upper Santa Cruz Valley
- O'odham world and the jesuit intrusion
- O'odham and the franciscans
- Hispanic settlement and the final displacement of the O'odham
- Early anglo speculation and the tumacacori land grant
- Fictitious capital and fictitious landscapes
- Bottom of the bottle
- Rio Rico and the great Arizona land rush
- Buried landscapes.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-292) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Sheridan, Thomas E. Landscapes of fraud.
- ISBN:
- 9780816534418
- 0816534411
- Publisher Number:
- 99983993664
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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