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1Author:  United States. Surveyor General of Arizona Territory.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Exhibits AAA and BBB Royal Patent: also Wills, Codicils, and Certified Copy of Possession given to Don Miguel de Peralta de la Cordoba, Baron of the Colorados of Baronial Estate in Arizona; and two supplemental reports, 1883-1887 ead 
 Date(s):  1883-1887 
 Abstract:  Typescript (carbon) and photographs of documents supposedly granting the Royal Patent over certain lands known as Peralta Grant to Don Miguel de Peralta de la Cordoba. Includes laid in report regarding the boundary lines by R.C. Powers, 1883; and Application for preliminary survey and amended deraignment of title in the matter of Peralta Grant, 1887. 
 Repository:  University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections 
 Subjects:  Land grants -- Arizona. | Peralta Grant. 
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2Author:  Stevens, Walter B. (Walter Barlow), 1848-1939.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Scrapbooks of the Peralta Land Grant Case, 1895-1899 ead 
 Date(s):  1895-1899 
 Abstract:  Scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, 1895-1899, concerning the Peralta Land Grant case. Most are written by Walter B. Stevens, 1848-1939. Stevens was a journalist and a St. Louis Globe-Democrat that covered the Peralta Land Grant case. Some clippings are present concerning other land grants. Also included are 88 pages of typescripts of news articles; some are the articles in the scrapbook. 
 Repository:  University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections 
 Subjects:  Land grants -- Arizona. | Peralta Grant. 
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3Author:  Reavis, James Addison, 1843-1914.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Account of Early Incidents Connected with the Peralta Grant, 1894 ead 
 Date(s):  1894 
 Abstract:  James Addison Reavis, 1843-1914, was a swindler and forger, famous for attempting to fraudulently obtain 7,500 sq. miles of Arizona Territory by falsifying documents in Mexico and Spain to show a Spanish land grant to Don Miguel Peralta in 1748. Photocopy of typescript relates his version of events surrounding the Peralta land grant claim. This text was reproduced in The Peralta Grant; James Addison Reavis and the barony of Arizona, University of Oklahoma Press, 1960. 
 Repository:  University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections 
 Subjects:  Land grants -- Arizona. | Peralta Grant. 
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4Author:  Reavis, James Addison, 1843-1914.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Defendant's Photographic Exhibits 1 to 44 Inclusive, 1895 ead 
 Date(s):  1895 
 Abstract:  James Addison Reavis, 1843-1914, was a swindler and forger, famous for attempting to fraudulently obtain 7,500 sq. miles of Arizona Territory by falsifying documents in Mexico and Spain to show a Spanish land grant to Don Miguel Peralta in 1748. This collection includes photoprints of selected defendant's documents, supposedly from various archvies in Guadalajara, Mexico, purporting to prove the existence of the Peralta land grant claim. Includes an item by item critical explanation relating to forged features of the documents. Documents are in Spanish; with English explanation. 
 Repository:  University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections 
 Subjects:  Land grants -- Arizona. | Peralta Grant. 
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5Author:  Powell, Donald M.Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Peralta Grant; James Addison Reavis and the Barony of Arizona, ca. 1873-1960 ead 
 Date(s):  ca. 1873-1960 
 Abstract:  Typescript original drafts and revisions with holograph corrections; accompanied by correspondence, notes, photographs, contemporary newspaper accounts, and extensive related research material used in the book, including many notes by Rosemary Taylor. Photographs, documents, and maps are photocopies of original materials used in Reavis' fraudulent land grant claim. Newspapers accounts, 1873-1896, are typescripts and photocopies from original reports related to the claim. 
 Repository:  University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections 
 Subjects:  Land grants -- Arizona. | Peralta Grant. 
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