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| | 1 | Author: | United States. Court of Private Land
Claims | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Records relating
to Cases Decided by the United States Court of Private Land Claims, Arizona
District,
1800-1904 (bulk 1891-1904) ead | | | | Date(s): | 1800-1904 (bulk 1891-1904) | | | | Abstract: | Microfilm of correspondence, reports, decrees,
surveys, petitions, sketch maps, photographs, field notes, land documents,
transcripts of trials and related court records supporting Arizona land grant
claims tried before the Court of Private Land Claims from 1891 to 1904.
Original papers are in the National Archives, Washington, D.C. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Land grants -- Arizona. | Baca Land Grant (Ariz.) | Canoa Land Grant (Ariz.) | Sopori Land Grant (Ariz.) | Los Nogales de Elias Land Grant (Ariz.) | Buena Vista Land Grant (Ariz.) | Peralta Land Grant (Ariz.) | Algodones Land Grant (Ariz.) | San Bernadino Land Grant (Ariz.) | San Bernadino Land Grant (Ariz.) | San Bernadino Land Grant (Ariz.) | San Juan de los Boquillas y Nogales Land Grant (Ariz.) | San Pedro Land Grant (Ariz.) | San Rafael de la Zanja Land Grant (Ariz.) | San Rafael del Valley Land Grant (Ariz.) | San Xavier del Bac Land Grant (Ariz.) | Rancho Martinez Land Grant (Ariz.) | Tres Alamos Land Grant (Ariz.) | Tumacacori Land Grant (Ariz.) | Tumacacori Land Grant (Ariz.) | Huebabi Land Grant (Ariz.) | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 3 | Author: | unknown | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | San Rafael de la Zanja Land Grant
1880-1887 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1880-1887 | | | | Abstract: | Letters, copies of legal documents, maps, and survey notes and other materials chiefly relating to the claims
of Alfred A. Green. Includes a map and survey notes by George J. Roskruge; a typescript record book of correspondence
and testimony, 1880-1885; survey and map of mines in the area, a copy of by-laws of the San Rafael Cattle Company;
and a list of mines on the ranch including mining towns of Harshaw, Mowry, Washington Camp, and La Naria. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Land grants -- Arizona. | San Rafael de la Zanja Land Grant. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 4 | Author: | Fontana, Bernard L. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Papers Relating to a Proposed Trailer-Home Development in the Area of Mission San Xavier del Bac, Tohono O'Odham Indian Reservation, Arizona
1970-1973 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1970-1973 | | | | Abstract: | Correspondence, petitions, maps, photographs, and clippings concerning land owner's protest to the
Pima County Planning and Zoning Commission. Also material relating to the Historic Zone amendment to the
Pima County Ordinance of 1952, and Fontana's term of service on the Pima County Board of Adjustment, District number 3. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Land use -- Arizona -- Tucson. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 5 | Author: | Maxwell Land Grant
Company | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Maxwell Land Grant
Company Collection,
1871-1929 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1871-1929 | | | | Abstract: | The collection includes financial statements of condition for
1922 and 1927 for The Maxwell Land Grant Company; a bound 142 page Decree Index
for the Springer Ditch Company vs. the French Land and Irrigation Company in
the District Court of the Eighth Judicial District, Colfax County, New Mexico;
two deeds to lots in Cimarron, New Mexico; one letter; a sectional map; a
booklet of mining regulations of The Maxwell Land Grant Company; and a Patent
for a land claim of Charles Beaubien and Guadalupe Miranda in New
Mexico. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Land grants -- New Mexico | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 7 | Author: | Mexico. Secretaría de Fomento, Colonización e Industria | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Records of the Secretaría de Fomento, Colonización e Industria, ead | | | | Date(s): | unknown | | | | Abstract: | Records of the Secretaría de Fomento, Colonización e Industria, consist of nine documents, mostly handwritten, pertaining to grants of land made to Juan Rochel and José Rico in Altar, Sonora, Mexico. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Land titles -- Mexico -- Sonora (State) -- Altar -- History -- Sources | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 9 | Author: | Stevens, Walter B. (Walter Barlow), 1848-1939. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Scrapbooks of the Peralta Land Grant Case,
1895-1899 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1895-1899 | | | | Abstract: | Scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, 1895-1899, concerning the Peralta Land Grant case.
Most are written by Walter B. Stevens, 1848-1939. Stevens was a journalist and a St.
Louis Globe-Democrat that covered the Peralta Land Grant case. Some clippings are present
concerning other land grants. Also included are 88 pages of typescripts of news articles;
some are the articles in the scrapbook. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Land grants -- Arizona. | Peralta Grant. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 10 | Author: | Reavis, James Addison, 1843-1914. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Account of Early Incidents Connected with the Peralta Grant,
1894 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1894 | | | | Abstract: | James Addison Reavis, 1843-1914, was a swindler and forger, famous for attempting to
fraudulently obtain 7,500 sq. miles of Arizona Territory by falsifying documents in Mexico and
Spain to show a Spanish land grant to Don Miguel Peralta in 1748. Photocopy of typescript relates
his version of events surrounding the Peralta land grant claim. This text was reproduced in
The Peralta Grant; James Addison Reavis and the barony of Arizona, University of Oklahoma Press, 1960. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Land grants -- Arizona. | Peralta Grant. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 11 | Author: | Reavis, James Addison, 1843-1914. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Defendant's Photographic Exhibits 1 to 44 Inclusive,
1895 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1895 | | | | Abstract: | James Addison Reavis, 1843-1914, was a swindler and forger, famous for attempting to
fraudulently obtain 7,500 sq. miles of Arizona Territory by falsifying documents in Mexico
and Spain to show a Spanish land grant to Don Miguel Peralta in 1748. This collection includes
photoprints of selected defendant's documents, supposedly from various archvies in Guadalajara, Mexico,
purporting to prove the existence of the Peralta land grant claim. Includes an item by item
critical explanation relating to forged features of the documents. Documents are in Spanish; with English explanation. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Land grants -- Arizona. | Peralta Grant. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 12 | Author: | Powell, Donald M. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Peralta Grant; James Addison Reavis and the Barony of Arizona,
ca. 1873-1960 ead | | | | Date(s): | ca. 1873-1960 | | | | Abstract: | Typescript original drafts and revisions with holograph corrections; accompanied by
correspondence, notes, photographs, contemporary newspaper accounts, and extensive related
research material used in the book, including many notes by Rosemary Taylor. Photographs,
documents, and maps are photocopies of original materials used in Reavis' fraudulent land grant
claim. Newspapers accounts, 1873-1896, are typescripts and photocopies from original reports
related to the claim. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Land grants -- Arizona. | Peralta Grant. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 19 | Author: | Franciscans. Province of St. John the
Baptist | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Records of the
Province of St. John the Baptist Franciscans,
1868-1978 (bulk 1906-1965) ead | | | | Date(s): | 1868-1978 (bulk 1906-1965) | | | | Abstract: | The collection includes correspondence,
financial records, official documents, reports, maps, articles, publications,
photographs, postcards, and notes. The bulk of the collection is correspondence
and records relating to the establishment and operation of missions and
schools, primarily at St. Michaels. These document activity between Franciscan
friars, the Navajo population, Catholic organizations, the U. S. Government,
and the Land Commissioner of the Santa Fe Pacific Railroad Company. Included
are materials on Navajo land allotments, education, language, social
conditions, government and church relations, tourism, and origins of the Navajo
Tribal Council. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Missions -- Southwest, New -- History --
Sources | Navajo Indians -- Education | Navajo Indians -- Government policy | Navajo Indians -- Missions | Navajo Indians -- Land tenure | Navajo language | Navajo Indians -- Photographs | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
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