Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nearly 170 years ago this week, Mexico sold a substantial chunk of what is now Arizona to the United States. The purchase included ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On December 30, 1853, a treaty was signed where Mexico sold the United States 29,000 square miles of territory for what eventually ...

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 ...

James Gadsden, ambassador to Mexico, purchased the land south of the Gila River from Mexico in 1853, an area first called the Gadsden Purchase, now Southern Arizona. His name lives on today in Gadsden ...

If the United States hadn’t invaded Mexico and if it hadn’t subsequently bought up what it didn’t simply take, we’d be writing “en español” about objects that personify our Sonoran city. The 1854 ...

Travel along the eastern border of the Gadsden Purchase. Host David Yetman and Naturalist Jesus Garcia, of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, begin at the eastern border of the Gadsden Purchase and ...

MESILLA – It was a day that officially changed the borderland. The ratification of the Gadsden Purchase, also referred to as "El Tratado de La Mesilla," will be remembered at 2 p.m. Saturday on the ...

Nearly 170 years ago this week, Mexico sold a substantial chunk of what is now Arizona to the United States. The purchase included the Arizona cities — then small towns — of Yuma, Tucson and Casa ...