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A Man Was a Real Man In Them Days - Pioneers of the Llano Estacado--1860 to 1900 (Paperback)
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A Man Was a Real Man In Them Days - Pioneers of the Llano Estacado--1860 to 1900 (Paperback)
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In "A Man Was a Real Man in Them Days," Ruth Burns celebrates the
life and character of the pioneers who dared to challenge the vast
prairie of the Llano Estacado of Eastern New Mexico. In the 1880s
along the Rio Grande and Pecos Rivers, the cities of Santa Fe,
Albuquerque and Ft. Sumner were bustling centers of commerce, but
on the High Plains, due to the lack of dependable water, the
prairie was inhabited only by occasional outlaws, Indian hunting
parties, Hispanic mustangers and buffalo hunters. After the Civil
War, cowmen began to bring their herds to the plains; and in 1898
when the railroad came, homesteaders poured in, lured by promises
of free land. Barbed-wire fences were put up, and the day of the
open range was at an end. Using interviews and letters collected by
her mother in the 1930s and 1940s, Burns reveals the courage,
determination, and good humor of these first settlers by using
their own words, recorded while they were still living.
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