Maxwell land grant; facsimile of 1942 edition

Reference & Research Book News, Nov, 2008

Maxwell land grant; facsimile of 1942 edition.

Keleher, William A.

Sunstone Press

2008

168 pages

$30.00

Paperback

Southwest heritage series

F802

Sunstone Press is doing local historians a service by reprinting early histories of the Southwest. The story of the Maxwell land grant in New Mexico is told by Keleher, who moved to the area in 1888 at the age of two and lived there all his life. As an attorney, he was interested in the legal problems of a grant issued by the Mexican government, disputed under American rule and blind to the rights of the native people living there. But the personalities of the families who lived on the grant and fought to remain there come through. One of the early settlers was Kit Carson, who gave a deposition on his time there. There are poor farmers and rich financiers. Keleher was able to speak with many who were descended from them. This book is not only of interest to local historians but also historians of film Westerns that got their inspiration from these events.

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