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
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. WhenCimarron 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. 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. 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. 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.
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