Translating Property. The Maxwell Land Grant And The Conflict Over Land In The American West, 1840-1900

MARIA E. MONTOYA

Publication: University of California Press, 2002, Berkeley and Los Angeles

First edition. 8vo. Cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, xvi, 299 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrated from photographs, portraits, notes, bibliography, index. This is a turbulent, vividly narrated story of the Maxwell Land Grant, a single tract of 1.7 million acres in northeastern New Mexico and southern Colorado, shows how contending groups reinterpret the meaning of property to uphold their conflicting claims to land. Fine bright copy in a bright fresh dust jacket.