Bell Ranch Cattle Ranching in the Southwest, 1824 - 1947
Albequerque: University of New Mexico Press, (1993). First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Large 8vo. Pp. xv, [1], 393. Title page photograph. Illustrated with two sections of photographs. Notes. Index. Bound in full brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. In the photo-illustrated dust jacket. Fine / Fine. Item #10427 Includes detailed information on the innovative cattleman George F. Ellis, who managed the ranch from 1947-1970, as well as his wife, Martha "Mattie" Downer Price Ellis,(1901-1998), who published four books on the history of the ranch, including Bell Ranch Places and People.
Bell Ranch near Tucumcari, New Mexico is a national landmark and one of the largest privately owned ranches in the US, originating in a Mexican land grant of 655,468 acres.
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