Click this link for a perspective of how the New-Mexicans were perceived during the 1870s.
http://www.kancoll.org/books/mccoy/mcchap18.htm
Disclaimer: The Kansas Collection website is managed by Susan Stafford and Dick Taylor, and was created by Lynn H. Nelson, retired Professor of History at the University of Kansas.. They didn't write it. lurker didn't write it; but the fellow who was the most instrumental in developing the Texas Cattle Industry's drive into Kansas did write it, in 1874. Joseph G. McCoy.