To Possess the Land: Biography Arthur Rochford Manby

by Frank Waters

Book Overview

Ambitious and only 24 years old, Arthur Manby arrived from England in the Territory of New Mexico in 1883, and saw in its wilderness an empire that he believed himself destined to rule. For his kingdom, he chose a vast Spanish land grant near Taos, a wild 100,000 acres whose ancient title was beyond question. Obsessed, he poured more than 20 years into his dream of glory, and schemed, stole, lied, cajoled, begged, and bribed to take the vast grant...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804006474
• ISBN13: 9780804006477
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: Swallow Press
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.