Peter Nabokov is professor of American Indian Studies and World Arts and Cultures at UCLA. His previous books include A Forest of Time, Native American Testimony, Native American Architecture (with Robert Easton), Indian Running, Two Leggings: The Making of a Crow Warrior, and Architecture of Acoma Pueblo
This is a fascinating accounting of a real-time range war and it's aftermath about land grants and dating back to abrogations of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. However, it takes place in 1967!