Forging Arizona: A History of the Peralta Land Grant and Racial Identity in the West

by Anita Huizar-Hernaandez and Anita Huizar-Hernandez

In Forging Arizona Anita Huizar-Hernández looks back at a bizarre nineteenth-century land grant scheme that tests the limits of how ideas about race, citizenship, and national expansion are forged. During the aftermath of the U.S.-Mexico War and the creation of the current border, a con artist named James Addison Reavis falsified archives around the world to pass his wife off as the heiress to an enormous Spanish land grant so that they could claim...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813598818
• ISBN13: 9780813598819
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher