U.S. Minister to Mexico James Gadsden and three envoys of the President of Mexico signed the Gadsden Purchase (Gadsden Treaty) in Mexico City. It gave the United States of America claim to nearly ...

Dear Mexican: I was a history major at the University of Arizona in Tucson, which I believe was part of the Gadsden Purchase, the last piece of old Mexico the U.S. “acquired.” That got me thinking: ...

The Tucson Presidio was part of the 29,670-square- mile swath acquired for $10 million from Mexico — primarily to build a southern transcontinental railroad line. Arizona became a separate U.S.

I was a history major at the University of Arizona in Tucson, which I believe was part of the Gadsden Purchase, the last piece of old Mexico the United States “acquired.” Dear Mexican: I was a history ...