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WESTERN GRAZING GROUNDS AND FOREST RANGES 



certain requirements of blood and breeding are stand- 

 ard-bred. Percherons, Clydesdales, Shires and other 

 heavy horses are draft horses or drafters. 



Sheep Introduced. The first sheep within the area 

 now embraced by the United States were brought into 

 what is now the state of New Mexico by the Franciscan 

 friars, who accompanied the Spanish conquistadores on 

 their journeys into that region from Mexico in search 



A Fen of Shropshires. 



of the fabled "cities of Cibola." It is recorded that in 

 1581 an expedition of which the friar Padre Luiz was a 

 member brought a few sheep with them from Mexico 

 and left them with the Indians at the Pueblo of Zuni, 

 which lies today not far from the town of Gallup, N. M. 

 The Indians in that region, especially the Pueblos, took 

 kindly to the sheep business. 



