{"product_id":"when-cimarron-meant-wild-the-maxwell-land-grant-conflict-in-new-mexico-and-colorado-9780806194776","title":"When Cimarron Meant Wild: The Maxwell Land Grant Conflict in New Mexico and Colorado","description":"The Spanish word \u003ci\u003ecimarron\u003c\/i\u003e, meaning \"wild\" or \"untamed,\" refers to a region in the southern Rocky Mountains where control of timber, gold, coal, and grazing lands long bred violent struggle. After the U.S. occupation following the 1846-1848 war with Mexico, this tract of nearly two million acres came to be known as the Maxwell Land Grant. \u003ci\u003eWhen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eCimarron Meant Wild\u003c\/i\u003e presents a new history of the collision that occurred over the region's resources between 1870 and 1900. Author David L. Caffey describes the epic late-nineteenth-century range war in an account deeply informed by his historical perspective on social, political, and cultural issues that beset the American West to this day. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Cimarron country churned with the tensions of the Old West--land disputes, lawlessness, violence, and class war among miners, a foreign corporation, local elites, Texas cattlemen, and the haughty \"Santa Fe Ring\" of lawyerly speculators. And present, still, were the indigenous Jicarilla Apache and Mouache Ute people, dispossessed of their homeland by successive Spanish, Mexican, and American regimes. A Mexican grant of uncertain size and bounds, awarded to Carlos Beaubien and Guadalupe Miranda in 1841 and later acquired by Lucien Maxwell, marked the beginning of a fight for control of the land and set off overlapping conflicts known as the Colfax County War, the Maxwell Land Grant War, and the Stonewall War. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Caffey draws on new research to paint a complex picture of these events, and of those that followed the sale of the claim to investors in 1870. These clashes played out over the following thirty years, involving the new English owners, miners and prospectors, livestock grazers and farmers, and Native Americans. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Just how wild was the Cimarron country in the late 1800s? And what were the consequences for the region and for those caught up in the conflict? The answers, pursued through this remarkable work, enhance our understanding of cultural and economic struggle in the American West. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David L. Caffey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Oklahoma Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/02\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 278\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780806194776","brand":"University of Oklahoma Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44365806600329,"sku":"9780806194776","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_f0b46fcd-76e5-42ac-8205-52b06ce8382f.jpg?v=1751345841","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/when-cimarron-meant-wild-the-maxwell-land-grant-conflict-in-new-mexico-and-colorado-9780806194776","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}