Twelve Hundred Miles by Horse and Burro: J. Stokley Ligon and New Mexico's First Breeding Bird Survey

by Harley Shaw and Mara E. Weisenberger

J. Stokley Ligon's work in bird conservation, habitat protection, and wildlife legislation during the mid-twentieth century is well-documented in his own writing and the writing of others. But hovering in the background of Ligon's life story has always been the rumor of a trip he made alone as a young man in 1913 in which he covered much of New Mexico alone on horseback. Details of the trip had faded into history, and Ligon--a self-effacing man--had...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816528616
• ISBN13: 9780816528615
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"