Valle Grande. A History Of The Baca Location No. 1

CRAIG MARTIN

Publication: Published by All Seasons Publishing, 2003, Los Alamos, New Mexico

First edition. 8vo. Color, pictorial perfect-bound, stiff wrappers, xvii [blank], 157 pp., preface, illustrated, portraits, maps, notes, index. Presents the background story to the Federal Government, who in 2000 purchased the Baca Ranch and established the Valles Caldera National Preserve in northern New Mexico ... from ancient geological and Indigenous-use periods, through Spanish and Mexican land grant eras, to U.S. territorial settlement, large scale sheep and cattle ranching, timber and mineral exploitation, and finally transition to preservation. The unique directives of the preservation act make the Preserve a national experiment in land management. Fine, bright copy.