Four leagues of Pecos : a legal history of the Pecos grant, 1800-1933 / G. Emlen Hall.

Main entry:

Hall, G. Emlen, 1942-

Title & Author:

Four leagues of Pecos : a legal history of the Pecos grant, 1800-1933 / G. Emlen Hall.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Description:

xxi, 367 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Series:

New Mexico land grant series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-357) and index.
Pecos Pueblo falters under wavering Spanish rule -- The death of Pecos Pueblo under Mexican rule -- The Pecos paper chase -- John Ward markets the Pecos Pueblo grant -- The Joseph decision : Pecos and the Supreme Court -- Donaciano Vigil's Pecos -- Pecos visits New York -- The deepening Pecos confusion, 1900-1920 -- Congress faces the pueblo dilemma -- Unravelling the Pecos Pueblo knot.

Summary:

Land grant disputes from the nineteenth century have divided and embittered some people for most of the twentieth century. In an attempt to bring final resolution to lingering controversies in New Mexico and throughout the West, in 2000 the U.S. Congress pledged to review disputed claims in the next few years.
The Pecos Grant is illustrative of legal and administrative wrangling over land grants. To ensure that a U.S. Senate Committee understood the complexity of the Pecos Grant, New Mexico lawyer and historian Ralph Emerson Twitchell told them in 1923: There are so many things in connection with this entire business that twenty King Solomons cannot unravel the knot. Yet in this book Hall does sort through the conflicting claims in the over one hundred years of Spanish, Mexican, and American legal maneuvers, legislative stalemates, and private sales involving this 18,000 acre square of land.

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ISBN:

0826307108
9780826307101
0826307272 (pbk.)
9780826307279 (pbk.)

Subject:

Pueblo peoples Claims History.
Pueblo peoples Land tenure History.
Indians of North America New Mexico Claims History.
Indians of North America Land tenure New Mexico History.
Land grants Law and legislation New Mexico History.
Pueblo Réclamations Histoire.
Pueblo Terres Histoire.
Peuples autochtones Nouveau-Mexique Réclamations Histoire.
Peuples autochtones Terres Nouveau-Mexique Histoire.
Indians of North America Claims.
Indians of North America Land tenure.
Land grants Law and legislation.
Pueblo Indians Claims.
Pueblo Indians Land tenure.
New Mexico.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

New Mexico land grant series.

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Location: Library main 19713
Call No.: ID:87-B6883
Status: Available

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