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Four Leagues Of Pecos: A Legal History Of The Pecos Grant, 1800 - 1933, G. Emlen Hall
Four Leagues Of Pecos: A Legal History Of The Pecos Grant, 1800 - 1933, G. Emlen Hall
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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 …