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Land
& Water Books
Essential books about the land grants, water rights and
acequias of Hispanic and Native American communities in New
Mexico and the Southwest.
Southwest
History Books
Hard-to-get
books on the history and social issues of the Southwest at
bargain prices.
Native
American Books
Including
books on Chaco Canyon, petroglyphs, pictographs, myths of
the Southwest, and the Pecos Ruins.
ONLINE
RESEARCH TEXT
General
Accounting Office Land Grant Report
Work
in Progress - Land Grant Database
The
Center for Land Grant Studies, with funding from Rio Arriba
County, the New Mexico State Archive,
and
the Chamiza Foundation, has
developed a database of all New Mexico land grants. The
initial version, while not covering every grant, lists some
basic information on each grant, including primary source
references. It is on-line here:
Grants
A-J |
Grants
L-R |
Grants
S-Z |
Grants
by County
Explanation
of Types of Grants
|
Rio Arriba Grant Summaries
Later
versions, if additional funding is secured, would include
all grants, and may include footnoted summaries of each
grant, links to transcriptions or scans of original grant
documents, translations if available, maps and other
resources. If funding allows, the updated database will be
posted on the Internet at www.southwestbooks.org.
Database
design is by Robin Collier and Malcolm Ebright. Researchers
include Robin Collier, Denise Damico, Malcolm Ebright, Rick
Hendricks, Kay Matthews, Norman Martinez, Richard Salazar,
and Mark Schiller. Additional other resources for the
project are being provided by the New Mexico State Archives.
Some completed grant
summaries, primarily those in Rio Arriba County, may be
purchased
individually on our Land & Water
page.
A
preliminary listing of grants entered so far are shown here:
Grants
A-J |
Grants
L-R |
Grants
S-Z |
Grants
by County
Explanation
of Types of Grants
|
Rio Arriba Grant Summaries
Land
Grants in a Nutshell.
Complete
notes online. Notes from a lecture by Malcolm Ebright
explaining the essential elements of New Mexico's Land
Grants.
Land
Grant Research Guide
on the New Mexico State Archive Web Site. Lists and
describes what materials are available at the archive in
Santa Fe.
Eugene
Lobato v. Zachary
Taylor
Landmark Ruling after 21 years of litigation on the Sangre
de Cristo grant in San Luis, CO by the
Colorado
Supreme Court, June 24, 2002,
affirming the rights of access
for grazing, firewood and
timber.
On
April 28, 2003 the
court issued an
additional ruling,
directing the trial court to
identify all landowners who have access rights to the Taylor
Ranch and to enter all necessary and appropriate orders to
safeguard those rights. On June 16, 2003, the court
clarified that plaintiffs need only prove by a preponderance
of the evidence that their property is included within the
boundaries of property owned or occupied by settlers during
the time of Gilpin ownership, and that the costs of
determining this must be borne by Taylor. The court suggests
that best evidence of benefited properties conveyed by
Beaubien is the official 1894 Costilla County survey and
inventory of lands held by individuals along the Culebra,
Vallejos, and San Francisco Creeks.
The
Treaty of Guadalupe
Hidalgo.
Complete
text. Includes pictures from the National Archive of the
treaty, the stricken Article
X
and the Protocol
of Querétaro
.
Bibliography
of Land
Grant books.
Glossary
of
Land Grant terms.
Excerpts
from "Land Grants &
Lawsuits"
Complete
sections online. Introduction,
Conclusion
& Index
from the book
by
Malcolm Ebright about New Mexico's land grant communities
and their struggle for justice.
Sharing
the Shortages
Water Allocation,
Litigation and Regulation in Hispanic New Mexico, 1600-1850.
Excerpts from an article from the
New
Mexico Historical Review.
The US
General Accounting Office (GAO) report on the Treaty of
Guadalupe: Definition and List of Community Land Grants in
New Mexico; Exposure Draft. Prepared for the US Senate,
this 49 page report includes an overview, an inventory of
295 Spanish and Mexican land grants in New Mexico and a
bibliography. Download in English
or Spanish
900K PDF files. (Requires Adobe
Acrobat).
The GAO invited comments on this draft to be sent via the
GAO
web page
or by email to landgrants@gao.gov
until April 2, 2001. Public meeting were also held in March,
2001. The final report issued on June 4, 2004 is
here: the
full English pdf version of the
GAO report (3 M File) or the
full Spanish pdf version (3.1 M
File)
RESEARCH
MATERIALS
Genealogical
& Research
Materials
Census, marriage and service records. Indexes of Spanish and
Mexican archives. Family trees for specific families. Useful
in tracing your roots.
Unpublished
Manuscripts
By leading scholars of New Mexico and the Southwest. Not
available anywhere else.
OTHER
RESOURCES
Links
Internet Links to Research Organizations, Government
Resources, Progressive News Sites, Regional Sites & Art
and Cultural Organizations.
Center
for Land Grant Studies
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