New Mexico's Struggle for Statehood, 1903-1907
Author : Mary J. Masters
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Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,80 MB
Release : 1942
Category : New Mexico
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Author : Mary J. Masters
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,80 MB
Release : 1942
Category : New Mexico
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Author : Dorothy Eargle Thomas
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Page : 141 pages
File Size : 39,94 MB
Release : 1939
Category : New Mexico
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Author : Robert W. Larson
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 15,39 MB
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0826329470
Why did New Mexico remain so long in political limbo before being admitted to the Union as a state? Combining extensive research and a clear and well-organized style, Robert W. Larson provides the answers to this question in a thorough and comprehensive account of the territory’s extraordinary six-decade struggle for statehood. This book is no mere chronology of political moves, however. It is the history of a turbulent frontier state, sweeping into the current almost every colorful character of the territory. Not only politicians but ranchers, outlaws, soldiers, newspapermen, Indians, merchants, lawyers, and people from every walk of life were involved. This is a book for the reader who is interested in any aspect of southwestern territorial history.
Author : Howard Roberts Lamar
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 48,82 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826322487
A history of the Four Corners states during their formative territorial years. Newly revised edition.
Author : Lansing Bartlett Bloom
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Page : 510 pages
File Size : 12,71 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic journals
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Author : David Van Holtby
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 20,62 MB
Release : 2012-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0806187840
New Mexico was ceded to the United States in 1848, at the end of the war with Mexico, but not until 1912 did President William Howard Taft sign the proclamation that promoted New Mexico from territory to state. Why did New Mexico’s push for statehood last sixty-four years? Conventional wisdom has it that racism was solely to blame. But this fresh look at the history finds a more complex set of obstacles, tied primarily to self-serving politicians. Forty-Seventh Star, published in New Mexico’s centennial year, is the first book on its quest for statehood in more than forty years. David V. Holtby closely examines the final stretch of New Mexico’s tortuous road to statehood, beginning in the 1890s. His deeply researched narrative juxtaposes events in Washington, D.C., and in the territory to present the repeated collisions between New Mexicans seeking to control their destiny and politicians opposing them, including Republican U.S. senators Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana and Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island. Holtby places the quest for statehood in national perspective while examining the territory’s political, economic, and social development. He shows how a few powerful men brewed a concoction of racism, cronyism, corruption, and partisan politics that poisoned New Mexicans’ efforts to join the Union. Drawing on extensive Spanish-language and archival sources, the author also explores the consequences that the drive to become a state had for New Mexico’s Euro-American, Nuevomexicano, American Indian, African American, and Asian communities. Holtby offers a compelling story that shows why and how home rule mattered—then and now—for New Mexicans and for all Americans.
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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 36,22 MB
Release : 2001
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ISBN : 1428949801
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Page : 512 pages
File Size : 18,29 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Arizona
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Author : Matt S. Meier
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Page : 110 pages
File Size : 22,70 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Mexican Americans
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Page : 598 pages
File Size : 26,4 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
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