Taylor was an old codger who began to write his reminiscences at age 80 and was still at it when 103 years old! But the old-timer was gifted with...
From Lead Mines to Gold Fields
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Richard H. Dillon
Camino del Norte
Despite its Spanish title, this book is mostly about the I-35 corridor and the Texas cities along this north-south highway: San Antonio, Austin,...
Beyond the Missouri
Richard Etulain is best known as a scholar for his expertise in the cultural and intellectual—and, especially, literary—history of the American...
Mexican Gold Trail
The Huntington Library is reprinting some of its regional classics. This fine Gold Rush journal by George W.B. Evans was ably edited by the late...
Blood and Thunder
Lurking behind a dumb, misleading title is a good book. (This is not some harum scarum melodrama by a dime novel Dickens.) True, persnickety readers...
The Life & Times of Nathaniel Hale Pryor
Much of the frenzied publishing of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial has been the retelling of a fairly familiar story. But this book is a welcome...
When Silver was King: Arizona’s 1880s Silver King Mine
After chasing Confederates in New Mexico and Arizona during the Civil War, veterans of the California Column stayed put and became pioneers of...
Passionate Nation: The Epic History of Texas
Probably because he also writes novels, Haley gives us the opposite of a stodgy textbook history of the Lone Star State. Best of all, he is candid....
History May be Searched in Vain: A Military History of the Mormon Battalion
(Thank heavens for subtitles attached to mystifying “poetic” book titles.) A number of good books on the Mexican War’s Mormon Battalion have been...
Albuquerque in Our Time
“Our Time” means the years since WWII. After a brief survey of Albuquerque’s earlier history, Debra Hughes turns the book over to 30 prominent...
Albuquerque Remembered
Writer Erna Fergusson observed in 1947 that Albuquerque, “sitting at the crossroads of the centuries,” had seen every phase of Southwestern life....
From Dominance to Disappearance
Here we have, at last, the first really comprehensive survey of the history of all Indians of Texas, including tribes that spilled over into...