"The rough-and-tumble world of nineteenth-century New Orleans was a sanitation night-mare, with the city's many slaughterhouses dumping animal remains into neig

A revisionist account of the Tejano experience in south Texas from its Spanish colonial roots to 1900.

diversification to form a ranching-based social and economic way of life. The process turned a largely southern people into westerners. Others helped shape the

In these journals, Colonel Richard Irving Dodge, a well-known chronicler of western history and an authority on Plains Indians, provides an important account of