Cowboys, Ranching & Cattle Trails: A New Mexico Federal Writers' Project Book

by Ann Lacy

Book Overview

Was life on the range in the 1880s and 1890s anything like the hard riding, hard working, hard drinking shoot 'em up images that moviegoers saw in old Westerns? Yes-and then some, the authentic documents in this collection tell us. Cowboys, sheepherders, ranchers and all those around them in Territorial New Mexico were engaged in constant life-and-death struggles. They battled with each other and with Indians. They endured blizzards, fires, drought,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865349452
• ISBN13: 9780865349452
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Sunstone Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"