Ranchers, Ramblers, & Renegades: True Tales of Territorial New Mexico

by Marc Simmons

Twenty-nine fascinating vignettes by a noted Southwest historian.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0941270173
• ISBN13: 9780941270175
• Release Date: March 1984
• Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publishers
• Length: 113 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Human Interest and History- Wonderful

This book has 29 true short stories of people who lived in New Mexico, when it was a territory. Each story is about 2-5 pages long. There are some black and white pictures of these same people included in the book. What a wonderful book. I particularly liked these were people who lived in New Mexico and that I could look at the pictures of each person as I read about them. This author has certainly done a lot of research. I have read a lot of New Mexico history and this book is gem. Many of the stories were ones that I had never heard before. Because the stories are short, it is easy to pick the book up for 15 or 20 minutes, read a story and put it down without losing your place. I appreciated the humor that Marc Simmons displays through out this book, many of these short stories end on a humorous note. This is a great book about the people who lived in New Mexico when it was still being formed into a state. It certainly provides a history of New Mexico through a different slant. I enjoyed every minute of reading it. My husband read it and enjoyed it as well.