When Cimarron Meant Wild : The Maxwell Land Grant Conflict in New Mexico and ...

Name: When Cimarron Meant Wild : The Maxwell Land Grant Conflict in New Mexico and ...
Brand: University of Oklahoma Press

University of Oklahoma Press

When Cimarron Meant WildThe Maxwell Land Grant Conflict in New Mexico and Colorado\nAuthor(s): David L. Caffey\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press, United States\nImprint: University of Oklahoma Press\nISBN-13: 9780806191799, 978-0806191799\nSynopsis\nThe Spanish word cimarron, meaning wild or untamed, refers to a region in the southern Rocky Mountains where control of timber, gold, coal, and grazing lands long bred violent struggle. After the [url] occupation following the [tel] war with Mexico, this tract of nearly two million acres came to be known as the Maxwell Land Grant. WhenCimarron Meant Wild presents a new history of the collision that occurred over the regions resources between 1870 and 1900. Author David L. Caffey describes the epic late-nineteenth-century range war in an account deeply informed by his historical perspective on social, political, and cultural issues that beset the American West to this day.\n\n Cimarron country churned with the tens.