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Colorado Voices: Cheap Land Part 1

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Colorado Voices: Cheap Land Part 1

Colorado Voices Episode 5 | 26m 40s | CC

Misleading land deals define Costilla County in a history of resource speculation going back to the area’s second wave of settlement. In 1864, the once million-acre Mexican land grant became property of the U.S. and was sectioned off as the area’s first subdivided estates. The resulting clashes from commodification of natural resource systems remain some of the area's longest and strongest battles

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