SPANISH LAND GRANT PROBLEMS WERE HERE _JULY 1967

Authors

• Wayne S. Scott, University of New Mexico Bureau of Business and Economic Research

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-1967

Abstract

The article was published as a response to contemporary debates over land-grant rights and the claims advanced by the Alianza Federal de Mercedes during the 1960s. It argues that many land-grant disputes predated U.S. control of New Mexico and originated in Spanish colonial legal practices, administrative irregularities, inheritance customs, and economic conditions rather than solely from actions taken by Anglo-Americans after 1846.

Recommended Citation

Scott, Wayne S. Spanish Land-Grant Problems Were Here Before the Anglos. New Mexico Business Reprint. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Bureau of Business and Economic Research, July 1967.