Tres Ritos:: A History of Three Rivers, New Mexico

by Gary Cozzens

Book Overview

Tres Ritos was first settled by the Jornada Mogollon in AD 900, and these ancient farmers left their presence in the form of more than twenty-one thousand petroglyphs along a mile-long ridge. The valley was visited by Spanish explorers in the 1600s and became the homeland of the Mescalero Apaches about that same time. Patrick Coghlan, the "Cattle King of Tularosa," built a major ranch here with his cattle being rustled and sold to him by none other...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609498836
• ISBN13: 9781609498832
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"