Jumat, 19 Januari 2018

Wild West Book Review: War of a Thousand Deserts

War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War by Brian DeLay, Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., 2008, $35.  In December 1840, when Mexico still claimed a large portion of the North American West, 400 Comanches descended from the Texas plains onto the ranches and haciendas south of the Rio Grande. They …

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