Following the 16th-century Spanish entrada into the future states of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, centuries of war and uneasy peace defined life and death in the arid region between generations of Spanish and Mexican settlers and the Native tribes of the Southwest. Three centuries later, the American Empire’s entrance into the Mexican-Indian borderlands would redefine


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