The Peralta Grant and the Baron of Arizona

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 23.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2014

⏱️ 31 minutes

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In the 1880s, James Reavis launched one of the most ambitious fraud schemes of all time when he claimed a huge part of the Arizona Territory as his own. He forged and planted evidence to back up his claim and came to be called the Baron of Arizona. Here'

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0:30.7	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class from Howstupworks.com.
0:34.7	Hello and welcome to the podcast.
0:44.7	I'm Holly Frye, and I'm Tracy V. Wilson.
0:47.7	And today we are going to talk about what might have been the greatest fraud scheme of all time.
0:51.7	It was certainly incredibly ambitious, and I have to credit our listener from Twitter,
0:56.7	who goes by Sharp Jack, for this one, because I had never heard of the Baron of Arizona,
1:00.7	which is hilarious because I was born in Arizona.
1:03.7	Well, and when he asked about it, I gave the same answer that I always give,
1:07.7	which is, you know, we get a whole lot of listener suggestions,
1:10.7	so I couldn't tell you.
1:12.7	And then within 30 minutes, he was like, oh wait, now Holly's really excited about it.
1:16.7	I was. Well, because then I looked it up and I saw this is so like in my niche,
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