When Cimarron Meant Wild: The Maxwell Land Grant Conflict in New Mexico and Colorado -- David L. Caffey

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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/673039 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When Cimarron Meant Wild: The Maxwell Land Grant Conflict in New Mexico and Colorado Author: David L. Caffey Narrator: Asa Siegel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 5 minutes Release date: May 9, 2023 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: The Spanish word cimarron, 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 United States occupation following the 1846–1848 war with Mexico, this tract of nearly two million acres came to be known as the Maxwell Land Grant. When Cimarron Meant Wild 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. 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. 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.

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