Forging Arizona : a history of the Peralta land grant and racial identity in the West /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Huizar-Hernández, Anita (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
Series:	Latinidad.
Subjects:	Reavis, James Addison, > 1843-1914 > Claims vs. United States. United States. > Court of Private Land Claims. Land grants > Law and legislation > Arizona. Land tenure > Law and legislation > Arizona. Fraud > Arizona > History. Swindlers and swindling > West (U.S.) West (U.S.) > Race relations > History. Arizona > History > To 1912.

Table of Contents:

Counterfeit narratives : the Peralta land grant archives and the forging of the West
Searching for Sofia : race, gender, and authenticity at the 1895 court of private land claims
Southwest speculation : newspaper coverage of the Peralta land grant
Counterfeit nostalgia : William Atherton Dupuy's the Baron of the Colorados
The Baron is like a battleground : Samuel Fuller's the Baron of Arizona
Epilogue : forgetting the Peralta land grant.