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UNM Land Grant Studies

David Benavides, Lawyer-induced Partitioning of New Mexican Land Grants: An Ethical Travesty (Guadalupita, N.M.: Research Paper No. 4, Center for Land Grant Studies, 1994).

  • No ISBN; available from Center for Land Grant Studies, www.southwestbooks.org, $10.00

UNM

Juan Estevan Arellano, Enduring Acequias: Wisdom of the Land, Knowledge of the Water (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2014).

  • ISBN: 978-0-8263-5507-2
  • https://unmpress.com/books/enduring-acequias/9780826355072
  • $24.95      Paperback

UNM

Amazon

John O. Baxter, Dividing New Mexico’s Waters, 1700-1912 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1997).

  • Out of print
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0826317472
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0826317476
  • https://www.amazon.com/Dividing-New-Mexicos-Waters-1700-1912/dp/0826317472
  • Used copies are priced at $796.00 (!!!!!!)

UNM

OutOfPrint

Richard Wells Bradfute, The Court of Private Land Claims: The Adjudication of Spanish and Mexican Land Grant Titles, 1891-1904 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1975).

  • Out of print; unavailable
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0826303625
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0826303622

UNM

Herbert O. Brayer, Pueblo Indian Land Grants of the “Rio Abajo,” New Mexico (Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1939).

UNM

Charles L. Briggs and John R. Van Ness, eds. Land, Water, and Culture: New perspectives on Hispanic land grants (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987).

  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0826309895
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0826309891
  • Used copies from ~$13
  • https://www.amazon.com/Land-Water-Culture-Perspectives-Hispanic/dp/0826309895/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3LSJF4ZISDYIC&keywords=briggs+van+ness&qid=1643739356&s=books&sprefix=briggs+van+ness%2Cstripbooks%2C117&sr=1-1

UNM

F. Lee Brown and Helen M. Ingram, Water and Poverty in the Southwest (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1987).

UNM

David L. Caffey, Chasing the Santa Fe Ring: Power and Privilege in Territorial New Mexico (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2014).

  • https://unmpress.com/books/chasing-santa-fe-ring/9780826319470
  • ISBN 13 – 978-0-8263-1947-0
  • $24.95 paperback

UNM

John R. Chávez, The Lost Land: The Chicano Image of the Southwest (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1984).

  • $29.95      Paperback       978-0-8263-0750-7
  • https://unmpress.com/books/lost-land/9780826307507

UNM

Ira G. Clark, Water in New Mexico: A History of Its Management and Use. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987).

  • https://unmpress.com/books/water-new-mexico/9780826309235
  • $150.00    Hardcover       978-0-8263-0923-5

UNM

William deBuys Enchantment and Exploitation: The Life and Hard Times of a New Mexico Mountain Range (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1985, rev. and exp, 2015).

  • https://unmpress.com/books/enchantment-and-exploitation/9780826353429
  • ISBN 13 – 978-0-8263-5342-9
  • $24.95      Paperback

UNM

Suzanne Forrest, The Preservation of the Village: New Mexico’s Hispanics and the New Deal (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, 1998).

  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0826319734
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0826319739
  • https://www.amazon.com/Preservation-Village-Mexicos-Hispanics-Mexico/dp/0826319734
  • Out of print – Price: ~$50

UNM

G. Emlen Hall, Four Leagues of Pecos: A Legal History of the Pecos Grant, 1800-1933 (Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1984).

– ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0826307108

– ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0826307101

– hardcover – ~$59.00

– https://www.amazon.com/Four-Leagues-Pecos-History-1800-1933/dp/0826307108/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1UIM04ULARYE&keywords=G+EMLEN+HALL+PECOS&qid=1643748106&s=books&sprefix=g+emlen+hall+pecos%2Cstripbooks%2C98&sr=1-2

UNM

Fred M. Phillips, G. Emlen Hall, Mary E. Black, Reining in the Rio Grande: People, Land, and Water (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, 2015)

  • $34.95      Paperback       978-0-8263-4944-6    July 2015
  • https://unmpress.com/books/reining-rio-grande/9780826349446

UNM

Clark S. Knowlton, Land Grant Problems among the State’s Spanish-Americans (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, 1967).

UNM

Paul Kutsche and John R. Van Ness, Cañones: Values, Crisis, and Survival in a northern New Mexico village (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1981).

UNM

José Rivera, Acequia Culture: Water, Land, and Community in the Southwest (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998).

  • $29.95  Paperback
  • ISBN 978-0-8263-1859-6
  • https://unmpress.com/books/acequia-culture/9780826318596

UNM

George I. Sánchez, Forgotten People: A Study of New Mexicans (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996).

UNM

Water Matters! Utton Transboundary Resources Center, University of New Mexico School of Law, 2011-2015.

UNM

Victor Westphall, Mercedes Reales: Hispanic Land Grants of the Upper Rio Grande Region (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1983).

  • Out of print – $69.25 used
  • ISBN 10: 0826306810 / ISBN 13: 9780826306814
  • Published by Brand: Univ of New Mexico Pr, 1983 https://www.abebooks.com/Mercedes-Reales-Hispanic-Land-Grants-Upper/30335987538/bd

CA press

Eric P. Perramond, Unsettled Waters Rights, Law, and Identity in the American West (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018).

CA press

María E. Montoya, Translating Property: The Maxwell Land Grant and the Conflict over Land in the American West, 1840-1900 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002).

  • Hardcover – ISBN: 9780520227446 – $63.00
  • https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520227446/translating-property
  • Paperback – ISBN 978-0-7006-1381-6 –– $29.95
  • https://kansaspress.ku.edu/978-0-7006-1381-6.html

University Oklahoma

Richard Griswold del Castillo. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: A Legacy of Conflict. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990).

  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0806124784
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0806124780
  • https://www.oupress.com/9780806124780/the-treaty-of-guadalupe-hidalgo/
  • $21.95

University Oklahoma

Richard L. Nostrand, The Hispano Homeland (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992).

The Hispano Homeland. By Richard L. Nostrand. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. xiv + 281 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-80612414-8.) 

Oakah L. Jones Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Page 239, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079724   Published: 01 June 1993

University Oklahoma

Gordon Morris Bakken, ed. Law in the Western United States. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000).

  • ISBN-10: ‎ 0806132159
  • ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0806132150
  • https://www.oupress.com/9780806132150/law-in-the-western-united-states/ $54.96

School
American Research

Sylvia Rodríguez, Acequia: Water Sharing, Sanctity, and Place (Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press, 2006).

  • $27.95      Paperback
  • ISBN – 978-1-930618-55-8
  • https://unmpress.com/books/acequia/9781930618558

University North Carolina

Karen R. Roybal, Archives of Dispossession: Recovering the Testimonios of Mexican American Herederas, 1848-1960 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017).

  • $27.95      paperback – ISBN 978-1-4696-3382-4
  • $90.00      Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-3381-7
  • https://uncpress.org/book/9781469633824/archives-of-dispossession/

University Arizona

Victor Westphall, Thomas Benton Catron and his Era (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1973).

Thomas Benton Catron and His Era. By Victor Westphall. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1973. x + 462 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $12.50; paper, $6.95.)  Porter A. StrattonJournal of American History, Volume 61, Issue 2, September 1974, Pages 498–499, https://doi.org/10.2307/1904009

Published:01 September 1974

University Arizona

Devon G. Peña (ed.) Chicano Culture, Ecology, Politics: Subversive Kin (Tucson: Univ. of AZ Press, 1999).

University Arizona

Michael C. Meyer, Water in the Hispanic Southwest: A Social and Legal History, 1550-1850 (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996).

  • https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/water-in-the-hispanic-southwest
  • Paperback ($24.95
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0816515956
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0816515950

Sunflower

Amazon

John R. and Christine M. Van Ness, eds., Spanish & Mexican land grants in New Mexico and Colorado (Manhattan, Kan.: Sunflower University Press, 1980).

  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0897450124
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0897450126
  • Out of print – $25.99 used
  • https://www.amazon.com/Spanish-Mexican-Grants-Mexico-Colorado/dp/0897450124

Norte Dame

Amazon

Frances Leon Swadesh, Los Primeros Pobladores: Hispanic Americans of the Ute frontier (Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press, 1974).

DogEar

Ebay.com

Mike Scarborough, Trespassers on Our Own Land: Structured as an Oral History of the Juan P. Valdez Family and of the Land Grants of Northern New Mexico (Indianapolis: Dog Ear Publishing, 2011).

Bradford
Amazon
Unavailable

Herbert O. Brayer, William Blackmore: The Spanish-Mexican Land Grants of New Mexico and Colorado 1863-1878 (A Case Study in the Economic Development of the West, Volumes I-II) (Denver: Bradford Robinson Printing Company, 1949).

Georgia

David Correia, Properties of Violence: Law and Land Grant Struggle in Northern New Mexico (Athens:

University of Georgia Press, 2013).

  • ISBN: 9-780-8203-4502-4 – $26.95pb    $69.95hc
  • https://ugapress.org/book/9780820345024/properties-of-violence/

Duke

Jake Kosek, Understories: The Political Life of Forests in Northern New Mexico (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006).

  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0822338475
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0822338475      $29.95
  • https://www.dukeupress.edu/understories

State Planning Office

White, Koch, Kelley, McCarthy and New Mexico State Planning Office. Land Title Study (Santa Fe: New Mexico State Planning Office, 1971).

Web Results

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David Benavides, Lawyer-induced Partitioning of New Mexican Land Grants: An … on Our Own Land: Structured as an Oral History of the Juan P. Valdez Family

Syllabus: Advanced Seminar in Chicana/o Studies – Academia …

https://www.academia.edu › Syllabus_Advanced_Seminar…

Scarborough, Mike. Trespassers on our own land: structured as an oral history of the Juan P. Valdez family and of the land grants of northern New Mexico.

Latino Veterans Fight for Victory

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Sep 14, 2020 — Lorena Orepeza, Fighting on Two Fronts: Latinos in the Military; Mike Scarborough, Trespassers On Our Own Land: Structured as an Oral History of …

American Latino Theme Study: Military – National Park Service

https://www.nps.gov › articles › latinothememilitary

Jul 10, 2020 — [14] Mike Scarborough, Trespassers On Our Own Land: Structured as an Oral History of the Juan P. Valdez family and the land grants of …

Mexican American Luminary – Somos Primos

http://www.somosprimos.com › spfeb12 › spfeb12

Jan 15, 2012 — Trespassers On Our Own Land is the history of the Valdez family from the time Spain granted Juan Bautista Valdez, Juan’s great, great, …

  • Somos Primos December 2011 145th Online Issue Editor

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Trespassers On Our Own Land: Structured as an oral history of the Juan P. Valdez family and of the land grants of Northern New Mexico by Mike Scarborough.

The King of Adobe: Reies López Tijerina, Lost Prophet of the …

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Lorena Oropeza · 2019 · ‎History

Trespassers on Our Own Land: Structured as an Oral History of the Juan P. Valdez Family and of the Land Grants of Northern New Mexico. Indianapolis: Dog Ear …

The Eagle Has Eyes: The FBI Surveillance of César Estrada …

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Scarborough, Mike. Trespassers on Our Own Land: Structured as an Oral History of the Juan P. Valdez Family and of the Land Grants of Northern New Mexico.

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Juan P. Valdez, ‎Mike Scarborough · 2011 · ‎Juan Bautista Valdez Land Grant (N.M.)

Structured as an Oral History of the Juan P. Valdez Family and of the Land Grants of Northern New Mexico Juan P. Valdez, Mike Scarborough.

A Civil War History of the New Mexico Volunteers and Militia

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Jerry D. Thompson · 2015 · ‎History

Trespassers on Our Own Land: Structured as an Oral History of the Juan P. Valdez Family and of the Land Grants of Northern New Mexico. Indianapolis, IN: Dog …

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