| | 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 |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | 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 |
| 11 | Author: | Poston, Charles D. (Charles Debrille), 1825-1902. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | History of the Apaches,
1866 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1866 | | | | Abstract: | Unpublished manuscript includes sections on the Oatman family, the Camp Grant Massacre,
and contains typewritten materials from the Arizona Pioneers Society including a list of
people killed by Apaches, 1869-1870, an 1885 resolution to present the true Apache
situation to government officials. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Apache Indians -- History -- 19th century. | Camp Grant Massacre, Ariz., 1871. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 17 | Author: | Wilbur, Rueben Augustine. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Rueben Augustine Wilbur Letter Book
1871-1874 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1871-1874 | | | | Abstract: | Rueben Augustine Wilbur was a U.S. Indian Agent for the Papago Reservation in Arizona Territory in the 1870s.
The collection contains chiefly letters, from Oct. 2, 1871 to Dec. 8, 1874, addressed to his superiors in the
Bureau of Indian Affairs concerning the administration of the agency and his relationships with the Indians around
San Xavier Mission. Topics include the Camp Grant Massacre, farming and food conditions, education, church influence,
Apache Indians, and appeals for the establishment of an official reservation. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Apache Indians -- Government relations. | Camp Grant Massacre, Ariz., 1871. | Indian agents -- Arizona. | Tohono O'odham Indians -- Government relations. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 19 | Author: | Empire Ranch (Ariz.) | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Empire Ranch
records,
1874-1944 (bulk
1880-1916) ead | | | | Date(s): | 1874-1944 (bulk
1880-1916) | | | | Abstract: | This collection includes correspondence, legal
documents, financial records, livestock records, and other materials relating
to the history, development, and operation of ranch property in Southern
Arizona and California. Includes records of cattle companies associated with
the Empire Ranch. Some ranches covered are Onyx Ranch, Bonita Ranch, El Dorado
Ranch, Rosemont Ranch, Pantano Ranch, and Rancho Corral de Quati. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special
Collections | | | | Subjects: | Total Wreck Mine (Ariz.) | Cattle trade -- Arizona -- History -- Sources | Sheep industry -- Arizona -- History --
Sources | Cattle trade -- Arizona -- History -- Sources | Cattle trade -- California -- History --
Sources | Forest reserves -- Arizona -- History --
Sources | Land titles -- Arizona -- History -- Sources | Land grants -- Arizona | Ranches -- Arizona -- Records and
correspondence | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
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