Images of acreage, purchased in 1999 from private owners, of some of the vast original land holdings in the San Rafael de Zanja land grant when Spain and Mexico assumed jurisdiction and title to the rich grasslands in the geophysical features creating the headwaters of The Santa Cruz River as we know it today.
The myth and popularity of Hollywood-style "cowboys" was created here, but it was preceded by the earlier traditons of Mexican "Vaqueros" and cattle-ranching centuries before.
Today certain private landowners are re-establishing A Life in Balance and a viable, sustainable working landscape that respects all that came before in the progress of time, keeping a sense of place, and looking back at the people who were players in the history of this great place that echoes, and thunders, down the centuries.
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