Historic Ranches of Northeastern New Mexico

by Baldwin G. Burr

Overview

In 1866, Charles Goodnight and his partner Oliver Loving began rounding up feral cattle in Texas, forming herds to be driven north into the immense unoccupied grazing land in northeastern New Mexico. The counties of Colfax, Mora, Harding, Union, and San Miguel became the location of some of the great historic ranches of the West. From the 11,000-acre Chase Ranch in Colfax County to the 650,000-acre Bell Ranch in San Miguel County, these ranches have been home to several generations of ranching families. Pioneer ranchers such as Manley M. Chase, Frank and Charles Springer, Samuel Watrous, and Albert K. Mitchell established a tradition of perseverance, self-sufficiency, and sustainable range management that continues to the present day.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781467115490
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	05/09/2016
Series:	Images of America Series
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	521,113
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Baldwin G. Burr is president of the Valencia County Historical Society and is secretary of the Historical Society of New Mexico. Burr has compiled more than 180 photographs from the Old Mill Museum in Cimarron, the Herzstein Memorial Museum in Clayton, the New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum in Las Cruces, and the Rio Grande Historical Collection at New Mexico State University to tell the story of the historic ranches of Northeastern New Mexico.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 6

Introduction 7

1 The Historic Ranches of Colfax County 9

2 The Historic Ranches of Harding County 51

3 "I See by Your Outfit" 67

4 The Historic Ranches of Mora County 77

5 The Historic Ranches of Union County 85

6 The Historic Ranches of San Miguel County 95

7 Rodeos and Other Amusements 111