Spanish & Mexican land grants in New Mexico and Colorado / John R. and Christine M. Van Ness, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Van Ness, John R.

Van Ness, Christine M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Land grants--New Mexico--History.

Land grants.

Land grants--Colorado--History.

Colorado.

New Mexico.

Genre:

Nonfiction.

History.

Physical Description:

119 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 28 cm

Other Title:

Spanish and Mexican land grants in New Mexico and Colorado.

Place of Publication:

Manhattan, Kan. : Sunflower University Press, ©1980.

Contents:

Introduction / John R. Van Ness

The town of Las Vegas community land grant: an Anglo-American / Clark S. Knowlton

Grants of desparation, lands of speculation: Mexican period land / Marianne L. Stoller

Historical archeology of the Rito Colorado Valley, New Mexico / Frances Leon Quintana & David H. Snow

Manuel Armijo and the Americans / Janet S. Lecompte

Giant before the surveyor-general: the land career of Donaciano Vigil / G. Emlen Hall

The Embudo grant: a case study of justice and the court of private / Malcolm Ebright

Anton Chico and its patent / Michael J. Rock

The Leitensdorfer claim in the Vigil and St. Vrain grant / Morris F. Taylor

Hispanic southwestern craft traditions and the Taylor museum collection / Wiliam Wroth

The Juan Bautista Valdez grant: was it a community land grant? / John R. Van Ness.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

The Balch Ethnic Studies Collection.

The Indian Rights Association Complementary Collection.

Other Format:

Online version: Spanish & Mexican land grants in New Mexico and Colorado.

ISBN:

0897450124

9780897450126

OCLC:

7190198