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Taos Indians And The Blue Lake Controversy, Ronald P. Archibeck

History ETDs

This paper shall concern itself with the sixty-four year controversy between the Taos Pueblo Indians and the United States Forest Service over the question of who should control the Blue Lake area in northern New Mexico.

To the Taos Indians, Blue Lake was their most sacred religious shrine -- the place or their emergence and re-entry into the earth after death. Also of importance because of numerous religious shrines were the 48,000 acres of wilderness watershed land adjoining the lake known as the Blue Lake area. The Indians had to convince Washington of this religious importance -- it was only …

Spain And Dos De Mayo, John P. Lewis

History ETDs

The principles of the Ancien Regime were inappropriate by 1800, yet Charles IV of Spain and his adviser, Manuel Godoy, protracted the existence of such methods of misgovernment until the forced abdication in 1808. As most countries pressed forward with the assistance of the developing industrial revolution, Spain remained a retarded land with an unproductive nobility, an all powerful mesta, a tiny middle class, and a shackled peasantry. The government was no more advanced since it was comprised of the absolute sovereign at the apex of the social triangle and the military establishment under the captain-general. Conditions for revolution were …

A Brief History Of The St. Louis, Rocky Mountain & Pacific Company., Craig Alan Ratchner

History ETDs

The coal properties involved in this study were originally part of a land grant made by the government of Mexico through New Mexico governor Manuel Armijo to Carlos Beaubien and Guadalupe Miranda on January 1, 1841. There lands were later acquired by Lucien Maxwell and became known as the Maxwell Land Grant. In July of 1902 this land was conveyed to the Raton Coal & Coke Company and contained a series of coal mines and coking plants in the Raton, New Mexico area. This coal land and all of the mining facilities were acquired by the St. Louis, Rocky Mountain …

History And Development Of National Park Legislation In Mexico 1917-1961, István György Maurer

History ETDs

The destruction of man's habitat is an age-old pattern as illustrated by examples from Asia, Africa and America. Equally old are attempts to save certain parts of the environment. The United States pioneered a new method in nature preservation with the establishment of Yellowstone National Park in 1872. Since that time national parks have become a worldwide phenomenon. Mexico, whose geography contains many areas of national park caliber, was an early participant in this movement. The grandeur of the Mexican landscape has been admired by travelers since Cortez. The country's climate and physiography combined to produce a variety of areas, …

A Study Of United States-Chilean Relations, 1913 To 1918, Charles Dimke

History ETDs

This thesis is an analysis of United States-Chilean relations, 1913 to 1918. Diplomatic contacts between the two powers provide an opportunity to investigate the impact of North America upon Chilean policy. Specifically, President Wilson's concept of Pan-Americanism contained in the 1913 to 1917 Pan-American Pact and negotiations concerning Chilean neutrality during the First World War emerge as focal points of this study.

United States diplomatic and economic intervention in Latin America resulted in an era of lingering Chilean doubt over Washington's intentions in the Southern Hemisphere. President Wilson was therefore faced with continued Chilean distrust and opposition early in his …

The New Deal In New Mexico; Changes In State Government And Politics 1926-1938., William Hickman Pickens

History ETDs

This Thesis analyzes the impact of the Nineteen Thirties on New Mexico's economy and society with particular emphasis on changes in politics and state government occasioned by the Great Depression and the New Deal. After a background of New Mexico from 1912 to 1930, the old style of politics is closely examined. Governor Richard Dillon's administration (1926-1930) is selected as characteristic of the pre-Depression brand of public service. Politics, the roles of Governor and Legislature, and five state bureaus are all described in detail. These areas are then traced through 1938 and the assertion is made that they experienced two …

History In The Service Of Politics: A Reassessment Of G. G. Gervinus, Charles E. Mcclelland

History Faculty Publications

Gervinus's political and scholarly position in nineteenth-century Germany deserves re-examination. Gervinus was a more complicated figure than some of his recent East German champions allege and a much more interesting scholar than his dismissive contemporaries believed. He was a historian too radical to hold a teaching chair but too popular with his readership to be ignored, and a more and more vociferous Cassandra in an age of increasing accommodation to and optimism about Bismarckian power. Gervinus's life was a passion in the service of democratic liberalism; as a result, he suffered during his life, and his reputation has suffered ever …