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Between Two Rivers: The Atrisco Land Grant in Albuquerque

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How an Hispano community maintained its identity over four centuries

Located in Albuquerque’s south valley, Atrisco is a vibrant community that predates the city, paying homage to a land grant awarded in 1692. Joseph P. Sánchez explores the evolution of this parcel over the four centuries for the reason that first Spanish settlers arrived. He tracks its transformation from a person to a community grant, peeling away the layers of historical events that have made Atrisco the last piece of undeveloped real estate in a growing metropolitan area.

Sánchez examines the creation of Atrisco as a frontier community all over the Spanish and Mexican periods and shows the way it maintained its identity and land ownership into the American era. He describes the historical processes of colonization, land tenures and transfers, and social and economic activity. He also assesses the transfer of the land grant to a private corporation and its subsequent fate, and considers Atrisco’s role someday of Albuquerque.

Today more than 30,000 New Mexicans are descended from the early settlers of Atrisco; and because few places in the US have retained their Spanish and Mexican influences as have the New Mexican land grants, the history of Atrisco offers a unique point of view. Sánchez’s study preserves Atrisco’s origins as a part of that area’s Hispano heritage, depicting people who learned to defend their culture against outdoor challenges and embedding local history in a larger regional saga.

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