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Author Correia, David, 1968- author.

Title Properties of violence : law and land grant struggle in northern New Mexico / David Correia
Published Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 220 pages) : illustrations
Series Geographies of justice and social transformation ; 17
Geographies of justice and social transformation ; 17.
Contents Property and the legal geographies of violence in northern New Mexico -- Yellow earth -- Colonizing the lands of war -- "Under the malign influence of land-stealing experts" -- The night riders of Tierra Amarilla -- An unquiet title -- The New Mexico land grant war -- Terrorists and tourists in Tierra Amarilla -- Rare earth
Summary Through a compelling story about the conflict over a notorious Mexican-period land grant in northern New Mexico, the author examines how law and property are constituted through violence and social struggle. Spain and Mexico populated what is today New Mexico through large common property land grants to sheepherders and agriculturalists. After the U.S.-Mexican War, the area saw rampant land speculation and dubious property adjudication. Nearly all of the huge land grants scattered throughout New Mexico were rejected by U.S. courts or acquired by land speculators. Of all the land grant conflicts in New Mexico's history, Tierra Amarilla is one of the most sensational, with numerous nineteenth-century speculators ranking among the state's political and economic elite and a remarkable pattern of resistance to land loss by heirs in the twentieth century. The author narrates a long and largely unknown history of property conflict in Tierra Amarilla characterized by nearly constant violence - night riding and fence cutting, pitched gun battles, and tanks rumbling along the rutted dirt roads of northern New Mexico. The legal geography he constructs is one that includes a remarkable cast of characters: millionaire sheep barons, Spanish anarchists, hooded Klansmen, Puerto Rican freedom fighters, or - as J. Edgar Hoover, another one of the characters in this story, would have called them - "terrorists." By placing property and law at the center of this study, this book first reveals and then examines a central irony: violence is not the opposite of law but rather is essential to its operation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-214) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Alianza Federal de las Mercedes.
SUBJECT Alianza Federal de las Mercedes fast
Subject Land grants -- Law and legislation -- New Mexico -- Tierra Amarilla -- History
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
FICTION -- Classics.
Land grants -- Law and legislation
SUBJECT Tierra Amarilla (N.M.) -- History
Subject New Mexico -- Tierra Amarilla
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012034306
ISBN 9780820345826
0820345822