New Mexico's Spanish Livestock Heritage: Four Centuries of Animals, Land, and People

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History • new mexico University of New Mexico Press unmpress.com | 800-249-7737 “Just as he opened new vistas with his award-winning Gardens of New Spain, Bill Dunmire has written a groundbreaking new book on the history of livestock in New Mexico. Dunmire’s books remind us that the fates of plants, animals, and humans are continually intertwined on this small, vulnerable corner of planet earth.”—Richard A. Melzer, author of New Mexico: Celebrating the Land of Enchantment isBn 978-0-8263-5089-3 ËxHSKIMGy350893zv*:+:!:+:! “Life and environment in New Mexico have been indelibly altered by livestock. Dunmire’s book is the first to offer a history of the use and effects of the full range of domesticated animals in the state. It raises many important questions and gives us a jumping-off place for exploring them.”—Richard Flint, author of No Settlement, No Conquest: A History of the Coronado Entrada ...