| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.3

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.3 | The History Cooperative

Translating Property: The Maxwell Land Grant and Conflict over Land in the American West, 1840–1900. By María E. Montoya. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xvi + 291 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $50.00.)
María E. Montoya provides a wonderful addition to New Mexico land grant history. Montoya explains the history of the Maxwell Land Grant, integrating it into the complex melange of the U. S. court system's interpretation of Mexican land grants, the "myth of the empty West," the integration of New Mexico into the market economy, and the imperialism of the U. S. during the nineteenth century.	. . .

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