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ARIZONA: Aboriginal Inhabitants.

See AMERICAN ABORIGINES: PUEBLOS, APACHE GROUP, SHOSHONEAN FAMILY, AND UTAHS.

ARIZONA: A. D. 1848. Partial acquisition from Mexico.

See MEXICO: A. D. 1848.

ARIZONA: A. D. 1853. Purchase by the United States of the southern part from Mexico. The Gadsden Treaty.

"On December 30, 1853, James Gadsden, United States minister to Mexico, concluded a treaty by which the boundary line was moved southward so as to give the United States, for a monetary consideration of $10,000,000, all of modern Arizona south of the Gila, an effort so to fix the line as to include a port on the gulf being unsuccessful. ... On the face of the matter this Gadsden treaty was a tolerably satisfactory settlement of a boundary dispute, and a purchase by the United States of a route for a southern railroad to California."

_H. H. Bancroft, History of the Pacific States, volume 12,