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

Dunmire, William W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826331653 ISBN 13: 9780826331656

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press, 2014

Synopsis

This survey of the history of livestock in New Mexico is the first of its kind, going beyond cowboy culture to examine the ways Spaniards, Indians, and Anglos used domestic animals and how those uses affected the region's landscapes and cultures. Dunmire mines the observations of travelers and the work of earlier historians and other scholars to provide a history of livestock in New Mexico from 1540 to the present. He includes general background on animal domestication in the Old World and the New during pre-Columbian times, along with specific information on each of the six livestock species brought to New Mexico by the early Spanish colonists.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

The Spanish introduced European livestock to the New World--not only cattle and horses but also mules, donkeys, sheep, goats, pigs, and poultry. This survey of the history of domestic livestock in New Mexico is the first of its kind, going beyond cowboy culture to examine the ways Spaniards, Indians, and Anglos used animals and how those uses affected the region's landscapes and cultures.

About the Author:

William W. Dunmire is a retired National Park Service naturalist and is currently an associate in biology at the University of New Mexico and a research associate at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. He has written six published books and is currently writing a memoir titled "From Peaks to Parks."

About this edition

• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0826331653
• ISBN 13: 9780826331656
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248