J. B. Cranfill was a trail driver from a rough
range before he became a Baptist preacher and publisher. His
bulky _Chronicle, A Story of Life in Texas_, 1916, is
downright and concrete.
KELEHER, WILLIAM A. _Maxwell Land Grant: A New Mexico Item_,
Santa Fe, 1942. The Maxwell grant of 1,714,764 acres on the
Cimarron River was at one time perhaps the most famous tract
of land in the West. This history brings in ranching only
incidentally; it focuses on the land business, including grabs
by Catron, Dorsey, and other affluent politicians. Perhaps
stronger on characters involved during long litigation over
the land, and containing more documentary evidence, is _The
Grant That Maxwell Bought_, by F. Stanley, The World Press,
Denver, 1952 (a folio of 256 pages in an edition of 250 copies
at $15.00). Keleher is a lawyer; Stanley is a priest. Harvey
Fergusson in his historical novel _Grant of Kingdom_, New
York, 1950, vividly supplements both. Keleher's second book,
_The Fabulous Frontier_, Rydal, Santa Fe, 1945, illuminates
connections between ranch lands and politicians; principally
it sketches the careers of A. B.
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