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All Seasons Publishing, Published 2003. Paperback, xvii, 157 pp; 26 cm; First Edition; illustrated with black-and-white photographs, maps, and portraits.
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In Very Good condition. Glossy pictorial wrappers; mild shelf wear. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. A detailed local history of the Baca Location No. 1, the nearly 100,000-acre tract of grassland valleys in the central Jemez Mountains of northern New Mexico that became the Valles Caldera National Preserve. Craig Martin traces the area from its volcanic origins and its Pueblo and Spanish past through the Luis Maria Cabeza de Baca land grant, the sulfur, sheep, and timber speculation that followed, the Bond family and Pat Dunigan's Baca Land and Cattle Company, large-scale logging, geothermal exploration, Hollywood filming, and the long road to its preservation as a national preserve in 2000. The cover adds the subtitle "Background to Creation of the Valles Caldera National Preserve." Illustrated by the author with black-and-white photographs and maps; with notes and an index. Contents: Preface; Big Bangs, The Volcanic History of the Valles Caldera; Beginnings, The Pueblo People and the Spanish Era; American Military Actions on the Jemez Frontier; The Luis Maria Cabeza de Baca Land Grant; Changing Hands, Sulfur, Sheep, Timber, and Speculation; The Bond Family in the Valle Grande; Pat Dunigan and the Baca Land and Cattle Company; High Grade to Low Grade, Logging the Caldera; Steam, Cows, Elk, and Hollywood; The Road to Preservation; Balancing Act, Working Ranch, Public Playground, and Natural Preserve; Notes; Index.