Describe how Thomas Catron planned to grab the Maxwell Land Grant.

Much of the research on the adjudication problems that confronted Spanish and Mexican land grant heirs in New Mexico has focused on the conflicts between private and common property-tenure arrangements. While historians have focused on the patterns of speculation by Santa Fe Ring lawyers and commercial speculators, their emphasis has been on the almost impossibly contradictory and irresolvable conflicts that arose from the collision between Spanish and Mexican common property arrangements, and the largely fee-simple rubric found in Anglo law.

herodotus taught this. herodotus was an ancient greek historian who was born in halicarnassus in the persian empire. he is known for having written the book the histories, a detailed record of his "inquiry" on the origins of the greco-persian wars.

it granted civil rights to african americans.