In the late-19th century, Arizona was the center of one of the grandest land-fraud schemes in the U.S. The Peralta Grant was a fraudulent claim to over 12 million acres of land from central Arizona to western New Mexico. James Addison Reavis almost single-handedly stole most of central Arizona by declaring himself "The Baron of Arizona" and claiming to inherit an 18th-century Spanish land grant. His outrageous scheme is one of the greatest land fraud stories in the United States.
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