This slender volume offers readers a fascinating historical account of Maxwell's Ranche, Territory of New Mexico that is rich with details and vivid descriptions. This frontier settlement had been in the mind of Lucien Bonaparte Maxwell when he returned to Kaskaskia, Illinois to select household items for his mansion under construction. In 1861 he began construction of his Aztec Mill and the locale which was to become known as Cimarron when the United States government established a post office by that name at Maxwell's Ranche with Lucien Maxwell as postmaster. Whether the mill at any time...