Landscapes of Fraud: Mission Tumacácori, the Baca Float, and the Betrayal of the O'Odham

by Thomas E. Sheridan

Book Overview

From the actions of Europeans in the seventeenth century to the real estate deals of the modern era, people making a living off the land in southern Arizona have been repeatedly robbed of their way of life. History has recorded more than three centuries of speculative failures that never amounted to much but left dispossessed people in their wake. This book seeks to excavate those failures, to examine the new social spaces the schemers struggled to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816527490
• ISBN13: 9780816527496
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"