Four Leagues of Pecos: A Legal History of the Pecos Grant, 1800-1933 (New Mexico Land Grant Series) - Hardcover

Hall, G. Emlen

9780826307101: Four Leagues of Pecos: A Legal History of the Pecos Grant, 1800-1933 (New Mexico Land Grant Series)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826307108 ISBN 13: 9780826307101

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press, 1984

Land grant disputes from the nineteenth century have divided and embittered some people for most of the twentieth century. In an attempt to bring final resolution to lingering controversies in New Mexico and throughout the West, in 2000 the U.S. Congress pledged to review disputed claims in the next few years.

The Pecos Grant is illustrative of legal and administrative wrangling over land grants. To ensure that a U.S. Senate Committee understood the complexity of the Pecos Grant, New Mexico lawyer and historian Ralph Emerson Twitchell told them in 1923: "There are so many things in connection with this entire business that twenty King Solomons cannot unravel the knot." Yet in this book Hall does sort through the conflicting claims in the over one hundred years of Spanish, Mexican, and American legal maneuvers, legislative stalemates, and private sales involving this 18,000 acre square of land.

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From the Back Cover:

Hall's book, originally published in 1984, remains an engrossing account that offers much new and valuable information about the Pecos Grant and about the political and economic events in which it is entwined.

About the Author:

G. Emlen Hall is professor emeritus in the School of Law at the University of New Mexico. His most recent book is High and Dry (UNM Press).

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