A HUNDRED YEARS ON HORSE TRACKS The Story of the Gray Ranch

A HUNDRED YEARS ON HORSE TRACKS The Story of the Gray Ranch by Hilliard, George. Hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780944383407.

-This book, while it contains facts (public records information), the greater part of the book comes from peoples recollections, written or spoken, of individuals, places, and events that were in most cases long in the past at the telling. -From the preface by Drummond Hadley of Gray Ranch, New "This is the story of that time in America when there were vast open spaces of grasslands and mountains filled with wildlife. In 1864 the mountain man Pierre Charbonneau roped a grizzly on the Gray Ranch near the western edge of the Animas Valley, while he was leading the Mormon Battalion toward Guadalupe Pass. The country was new to cattle grazing and as Joe Yarbrough said in 1880 . . . he rode from El Passo to Animas and his stirrups were never out of the grass." -This book is also about how that ended and how they are trying to bring it back. It is the story of poor drifting strangers and big cattle financiers who came here, their interactions with each other and with the Apache Nation. - It is the story of people born on the way in that giant migration of the settling of America. -And, it is the story of a last great place that still today remains a vast unsettled landscape of wide valleys, towering mountain ranges filled with deep canyons and broken mesas and arroyos--land remaining essentially as it was. -A fascinating look at the Diamond A and the Gray Ranch." This book would make a great gift for a rancher or lover of books about the settling of the West.