Title:
Coronado National Memorial : a history of Montezuma Canyon and the Southern Huachucas / Joseph P. Sánchez.
Author:
Sánchez, Joseph P., author.
Publication Information:
Reno : University of Nevada Press, [2017]
Call Number:
F817.C5 S35 2017
Abstract:
"Coronado National Memorial : A History of the Huachuca Mountains and Montezuma Canyon is about a place that is tied to the history, heritage, and patrimony of Spain, Mexico, and the United States as well as to regional Native American tribes. As such, thematic supplements include Spanish colonial contact, settlement, missions, Mexican Territorial Period land grants, and a history of Coronado National Memorial. Additionally, the history of Montezuma Canyon is part of the historical process that shaped the region and two countries"--Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
9781943859313
Series:
America's national parks series
America's national parks series.
Physical Description:
xiv, 202 pages ; 23 cm.
Contents:
Preface -- Introduction: The many faces of Montezuma Canyon -- Montezuma Canyon, the Coronado Expedition, and historians : an historiographical conundrum -- After Coronado : Spanish and Mexican mining interests in the Huachucas -- The San Rafael del Valle and the San Pedro land grants -- The crown of Montezuma Canyon : a history of the State of Texas Mines -- Prospectors, speculators and miners : the origins, decline, and fateful end of the Doredor Mines Group -- Mexican rancheros, homesteaders, and dude ranch operators -- Mexico, the United States and the establishment of Coronado National Memorial, 1939 to 1952 -- Land acquisition, mining interests, and Montezuma Canyon -- Mines, boundary adjustments, land acquisition and the sixty-foot-wide strip -- Afterword.
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