Mustangs and Wild Cows

About the Book

This is a book about cattle ranching in the Zuni Mountains and Datil Mountains in McKinley and Catron counties in New Mexico in 1930–1960. It is autobiographical and is meant to be informative and entertaining.

About the Author

Gary Tietjen was born 12 October, 1932 in Bluewater, NM, the second child of Jeff Tietjen and Edna Berryhill. His first 25 years were spent on cattle ranches in Catron, Cibola, and McKinley counties of New Mexico, frequently working with Navajo Indians. He taught three years of High School at Ramah, NM. With a master’s degree in Mathematics from BYU, he then spent 35 years working as a Mathematician, Epidemiologist, and Statistician for Hercules Powder Company and for Los Alamos National Laboratory. He has written several books on local history, including Ernst Albert Tietjen, Missionary and Colonizer(1992); History of the Ramah Pioneers (2007 ), Joseph and Maud Tietjen and Some Equally Wild Neighbors (2015), Encounter With the Frontier(1970), and History of Mormon Settlement in New Mexico(1980). He is now retired in Rio Rancho, NM.