Defendant's Photographic Exhibits 1 to 44 Inclusive
Photocopy of Document for Defense of Peralta Land Claim
Collection area: Arizona and Southwest Borderlands
Collection dates: 1895
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.
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.
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