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Migration/Migrant

 

Correia, David, “Taking Timber, Earth, and Water: The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad and the Struggle for New Mexico’s Land Grants,” Natural Resources Journal, 48 (Fall 2008), 949–62.

Damico, Denise Holladay, “The Cebolleta Land Grant: Multicultural Cooperation and Contention,” Natural Resources Journal, 48 (Fall 2008), 963–81.

Davis, Robert Scott, “Joe Ritchey of Tennessee: An American Desperado in Legends, the Newspapers, and a Federal Pension File,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 69 (Summer 2009), 152–73.

Houghton, Kristopher N., “The Blighted History of the Alameda Land Grant: Montoya v. Unknown Heirs of Vigil,” Natural Resources Journal, 48 (Fall 2008), 983–1007.

Lujan, Elaine Patricia, “The Pajarito Land Grant: A Contextual Analysis of Its Confirmation by the U.S. Government,” Natural Resources Journal, 48 (Fall 2008), 1009–37.

Oleson, Jan, “‘Mercyfull Warres agaynst These Naked People’: The Discourse of Violence in the Early Americas,” Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue canadienne d’études américaines (Ottawa), 39 (no. 3, 2009), 253–72.

Oman, Kerry R., “‘Rejoicing in the Beauties of Nature’: The Image of the Western Landscape during the Fur Trade,” Great Plains Quarterly, 29 (Fall 2009), 301–16.

Smith, Thomas T., “Fort Inge and the Texas Frontier Economy, 1849–1869,” Military History of the West, 39 (2009), 59–83.

Suponitskaya, I. M., “Russkie i amerikantsy na ‘granitse’: Otnosheniia s aborigenamy” (Russians and Americans on the frontier: Colonization of Siberia and the West), in Amerikanskii ezhegodnik 2007 (American yearbook, 2007), ed. T. Y. Lavrent’eva, 228–51. (Moscow: Nauka, 2009. 461 pp. isbn 978-5-02-037000-5.) In Russian.

Woods, Fred E., “The 1854 Mormon Emigration at the Missouri-Kansas Border,” Kansas History, 32 (Winter 2009–2010), 226–45. Heavily illustrated.

 

Desrosiers-Lauzon, Godefroy, “Southern Seduction: Canadian and American Snowbirds in Florida since 1945” (University of Ottawa, Canada, 2008).

Tiagi, Raaj, “Economic Opportunity in the Early Twentieth Century: A Study of Migrants” (University of California, Irvine, 2009). Order No. DA3347831.

 

Choi, Seungeun, and Jeongmyung Kim, Miguk: Jeongmyong; Myeongbakhan unmyeong inga dokseongwa chakgakinga? (The United States: Manifest destiny or self-righteousness and misunderstanding?). (Seoul: Risoo, 347 pp. Paper, Won 15,000, isbn 978-89-90449-45-0.) In Korean.

Janin, Hunt, and Ursula Carlson, Trails of Historic New Mexico: Routes Used by Indian, Spanish, and American Travelers through 1886. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2010. viii, 223 pp. Paper, $39.95, isbn 978-0-7864-4010-8.)

Stukalin, Iu. V., Na prostorakh prerii: Trubka mira I topor voiny (In the vastness of the prairie: The peace pipe and the hatchet). (Moscow: ENAS, 2009. 304 pp. isbn 978-5-93196-937-4.) In Russian.

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