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Inaugural Address of Hon. W. G. Ritch, President
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 32

Inaugural Address of Hon. W. G. Ritch, President

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1881
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 712

The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1968
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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When Cimarron Meant Wild
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 368

When Cimarron Meant Wild

The Spanish word cimarron, meaning “wild” or “untamed,” refers to a region in the southern Rocky Mountains where control of timber, gold, coal, and grazing lands long bred violent struggle. After the U.S. occupation following the 1846–1848 war with Mexico, this tract of nearly two million acres came to be known as the Maxwell Land Grant. WhenCimarron Meant Wild presents a new history of the collision that occurred over the region’s resources between 1870 and 1900. Author David L. Caffey describes the epic late-nineteenth-century range war in an account deeply informed by his historical perspective on social, political, and cultural issues that beset the American West to this day....

Where We Come from
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 306

Where We Come from

Archuleta families in Spain and the American Southwest. The author's ancestor is Jose Damian Archuleta, who was born in about 1754. He married Juana Micaela Salazar 29 January 1772 in Santa Cruz, New Mexico. Includes general historical background for Hispanic American families.

Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of New York
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 946
The Army of the Pacific
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 466

The Army of the Pacific

Tells the story of volunteer troops who served in the West during the Civil War. This work is part of the Frontier Military series.

The Penitente Brotherhood
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

The Penitente Brotherhood

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002-11-15
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  • Publisher: JHU Press

As a result, Carroll concludes, Penitente membership facilitated the "rise of the modernin New Mexico and--however unintentionally--made it that much easier, after the territory's annexation by the United States, for the Anglo legal system to dispossess Hispanos of their land.

Mangas Coloradas, Chief of the Chiricahua Apaches
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 622

Mangas Coloradas, Chief of the Chiricahua Apaches

The first full-length life of the Apache warrior-leader, Mangas Coloradas, describes his outstanding qualities, the Apache culture in which he rose to power, and the battles against white and Mexican settlements in New Mexico that made him widely feared. UP.

Army Regulars on the Western Frontier, 1848-1861
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 332

Army Regulars on the Western Frontier, 1848-1861

Unlike previous histories, this book argues that the politics of slavery profoundly influenced the western mission of the regular army - affecting the hearts and minds of officers and enlisted men both as the nation plummented toward civil war."--BOOK JACKET.

Colored Men and Hombres Aquí
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 399

Colored Men and Hombres Aquí

  • Categories: Law

This collection of ten essays commemorates the 50th anniversary of an important but almost forgotten U.S. Supreme court case, Hernandez v. Texas, 347 US 475 (1954), the major case involving Mexican Americans and jury selection, published just before Brown v. Board of Education in the 1954 Supreme Court reporter. This landmark case, the first to be tried by Mexican American lawyers before the U.S. Supreme Court, held that Mexican Americans were a discrete group for purposes of applying Equal Protection. Although the case was about discriminatory state jury selection and trial practices, it has been cited for many other civil rights precedents in the intervening 50 years. Even so, it has not b...