UID:
edocfu_9960962653502883
Format:
1 online resource (416 p.)
Edition:
[1st ed.
ISBN:
0-8263-2947-0
Content:
Why did New Mexico remain so long in political limbo before being admitted to the Union as a state? Combining extensive research and a clear and well-organized style, Robert W. Larson provides the answers to this question in a thorough and comprehensive account of the territory's extraordinary six-decade struggle for statehood. This book is no mere chronology of political moves, however. It is the history of a turbulent frontier state, sweeping into the current almost every colorful character of the territory. Not only politicians but ranchers, outlaws, soldiers, newspapermen, Indians, merc
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Description based upon print version of record.
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""Cover""; ""CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""I. CONQUEST AND MILITARY RULE""; ""II. FIRST ATTEMPTS""; ""III. THE 1850 CONSTITUTION""; ""IV. BECOMING A TERRITORY""; ""V. INTERNAL STRIFE ""; ""VI. A CHANGING TERRITORY""; ""VII. THE CONSTITUTION OF 1872""; ""VIII. THE FATEFUL HANDSHAKE""; ""IX. STATEHOOD AND THE SANTA FE RING""; ""X. THE CONSTITUTION OF 1889""; ""XI. FREE SILVER AND POPULISM""; ""XII. A NEW ERA""; ""XIII. THE KNOX BILL""; ""XIV. THE JOINTURE MOVEMENT""; ""XV. THE ENABLING ACT""; ""XVI. THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF 1910""; ""XVII. THE FINAL STEPS""; ""CHAPTER NOTES""
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""BIBLIOGRAPHY""""INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8263-2946-2
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-299-74578-4
Language:
English
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