Title Forging Arizona : a History of the Peralta Land Grant and Racial Identity in the West

Published New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (181 pages) Series Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in The Ser Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in The Ser Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; Part I. Inventing the Peralta Land Grant; 1. Counterfeit Narratives: The Peralta Land Grant Archives and the Forging of the West; 2. Searching for Sofia: Race, Gender, and Authenticity at the 1895 Court of Private Land Claims; 3. Southwest Speculation: Newspaper Coverage of the Peralta Land Grant; Part II. (Re)membering the Peralta Land Grant; 4. Counterfeit Nostalgia: William Atherton DuPuy's Baron of the Colorados (1940); 5. The Baron Is like a Battleground: Samuel Fuller's Baron of Arizona (1950) Epilogue: Forgetting the Peralta Land GrantAcknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author Summary In Forging Arizona Anita Huizar-Hernández looks back at a bizarre nineteenth-century land grant scheme that tests the limits of how ideas about race, citizenship, and national expansion are forged. During the aftermath of the U.S.-Mexico War and the creation of the current border, a con artist named James Addison Reavis falsified archives around the world to pass his wife off as the heiress to an enormous Spanish land grant so that they could claim ownership of a substantial portion of the newly-acquired Southwestern territories. Drawing from a wide variety of sources including court records, newspapers, fiction, and film, Huizar-Hernández argues that the creation, collapse, and eventual forgetting of Reavis's scam reveal the mechanisms by which narratives, real and imaginary, forge borders. An important addition to extant scholarship on the U.S Southwest border, Forging Arizona recovers a forgotten case that reminds readers that the borders that divide nations, identities, and even true from false are only as stable as the narratives that define them Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-155) and index Notes Print version record Subject Reavis, James Addison, 1843-1914 -- Claims vs. United States SUBJECT Reavis, James Addison, 1843-1914 -- Claims vs. United States Reavis, James Addison, 1843-1914 fast Subject United States. Court of Private Land Claims. SUBJECT United States. Court of Private Land Claims fast Subject Land grants -- Law and legislation -- Arizona Land tenure -- Law and legislation -- Arizona Fraud -- Arizona -- History Swindlers and swindling -- West (U.S.) HISTORY -- General. Fraud Land grants -- Law and legislation Land tenure -- Law and legislation Race relations Swindlers and swindling SUBJECT West (U.S.) -- Race relations -- History Arizona -- History -- To 1912. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85007185 Subject Arizona West United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2018028958 ISBN 0813598850 9780813598857 9780813598826 0813598826 9780813598819 0813598818

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