New Mexico's Spanish Livestock Heritage: Four Centuries of Animals, Land, and People

by William W. Dunmire

This survey of the history of livestock in New Mexico is the first of its kind, going beyond cowboy culture to examine the ways Spaniards, Indians, and Anglos used domestic animals and how those uses affected the region's landscapes and cultures. Dunmire mines the observations of travelers and the work of earlier historians and other scholars to provide a history of livestock in New Mexico from 1540 to the present. He includes general background on...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826331653
• ISBN13: 9780826331656
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"