New Mexico rangeland — Hereford cattle graze beneath a towering thunderhead

The World

A vast cattle ranch in northeastern New Mexico — hundreds of thousands of acres of mesa and canyon and grassland. The characters are fiction. The country is not.

Ranch Map

The country that made them

Twelve locations across hundreds of thousands of acres — Casa Blanca, the corrals, Indian Rock Mesa, the Canadian River. Explore the places where two summers unfold.

The Missing Chapters

The years the novel left out

Twenty-three years of letters, journal entries, newspaper clippings, and ranch records — the story between the summers. Subscription access.

Ignacio's Cookbook

From the chuck wagon to your table

The recipes of Ignacio Romero, ranch cook — green chile stew, sopaipillas, peach cobbler, and the meals that fed a working crew.