Dixie Boyle

History of the Mountainair, NM Ranger District Dixie Boyle

At the turn of the twentieth century, the Manzano Mountains were an unsettled wilderness area with no developed campgrounds and only primitive wagon roads and hunting trails traversing the isolated terrain. Resources on the forest were being indiscriminately used by early settlers and in an attempt to manage the land the Manzano Forest Reserve was established in 1906. This is a 46-page pamphlet.