AZ 109
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Collection Summary | |
| Creator: | Reavis, James Addison, 1843-1914. |
| Collection Name: | Account of Early Incidents Connected with the Peralta Grant, |
| Inclusive Dates: | 1894 |
| Physical Description: | 1 item (13 leaves) |
| 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. |
| Collection Number: | AZ 109 |
| Language: | Materials are in English. |
| Repository: |
University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections University of Arizona PO Box 210055 Tucson, AZ 85721-0055 Phone: 520-621-6423 Fax: 520-621-9733 URL: http://speccoll.library.arizona.edu/ E-Mail: LBRY-askspcoll@email.arizona.edu |
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.
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Photocopy; originals in the Broadhead Papers in the Library of Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis.
The following collections also contain information about the Peralta Grant: AZ 107, AZ 108, AZ 110, and AZ 111.
Account of Early Incidents Connected with the Peralta Grant (AZ 109). Special Collections, University of Arizona Libraries.
Acquired as gift, 1956.
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