Baldwin G Burr: 2 books

In 1866, Charles Goodnight and his partner Oliver Loving began rounding up feral cattle in Texas, forming herds to be driven north into the immense unoccupied grazing land in northeastern New Mexico. The counties of Colfax, Mora, Harding, Union, and San Miguel became the location of some of the great...

The town of Socorro got its name from the �succor� travelers found at the northern end of a 90-mile-long desert trail known as the Jornada del Muerto, the �Journey of the Dead Man,� in central New Mexico. The village of Socorro, located at the site of the ancient 1600s Piro Pueblo, was first...