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To Possess the Land: A Biography of Arthur Rochford Manby by Frank Waters (Paperback, 1993)

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Ambitious and only 24 years old, Arthur Manby arrived from England in the Territory of New Mexico in 1883, and saw in its wilderness an empire that he believed himself destined to rule. For his kingdom, he chose a vast Spanish land grant near Taos, a wild 100,000 acres whose ancient title was beyond question. Obsessed, he poured more than 20 years into his dream of glory, and schemed, stole, lied, cajoled, begged, and bribed to take the vast grant from its rightful owners. With great mastery, Waters draws us into this obsession, and the intense drama of these years is at once psychological and historical. In May 1913, Manby came at last to possess the grant, but within three years it had slipped again from his grasp. The story does t end there, and perhaps only Frank Waters could have portrayed the strange disintegration of Manby's personality as he aged, his frantic but ingenious efforts to regain \u201chis\u201d land. Among these was the creation of a secret society which terrorized whole towns and villages, becoming so powerful that even Manby longer knew all its members and workings. At the same time he turned deeper inward, locked and bolted his gates against the outside world which hated and feared him more than ever. On July 3, 1929, a swollen, headless body was discovered in Manby's Taos home. Some said it was murder; others swore the body was t Manby's; still others reported seeing him alive afterward. The story blazed into national headlines and an official inquiry followed. Step by step, Waters takes us into the web of strange clues, evidence, more murders and complications-an investigation which the New Mexican government inexplicably called to a halt. The case remains the West's greatest unsolved mystery.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Ohio University Press, Swallow Press
GTIN
9780804009805
ISBN-10
0804009805
ISBN-13
9780804009805
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96683474

Product Key Features

Author
Frank Waters
Format
Trade Paperback (US), Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Biography: Historical, Political & Military
Publication Year
1993
Type
Biography
Genre
Biography: Historical, Political & Military

Dimensions

Weight
499g
Depth
20 mm
Height
230mm
Width
154mm

Additional Product Features

Place of Publication
Ohio
Spine
20mm
Net Quantity/Number of Units
1
Regional Cuisine
Mexican, Spanish
Publication Date
6/15/1905
Content Note
Black & White Illustrations
Region
World
Dimensions (LxWxH) - Cms
5.98X0.63X9.02
Date of Publication
25/10/1993
Dimensions
230x154x20mm
Series
0804009805
Country of Publication
United States

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