Vincent Price once did a movie called "The Baron of Arizona," about a 19th-century scammer who claimed title to a large chunk of the southwest.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baron_of_Arizona" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baron_of_Arizona</a><p>Back when state boundaries were still in flux. (Maybe we should think of this as the "Aaron Burr" era...)