Volume 56, Number 11 · July 2, 2009
Indian Terror on Our New Frontier
By Larry McMurtry
War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the US–Mexican War
by Brian DeLay
Yale University Press, 473 pp., $35.00
Shadows at Dawn: A Borderland Massacre and the Violence of History
by Karl Jacoby
Penguin, 358 pp., $32.95
The two action-packed and densely argued histories by Brian DeLay and Karl Jacoby concern themselves with the terror, carnage, and widespread desolation suffered by the citizens of northern Mexico and the American Southwest, mainly in the second and third quarters of the nineteenth century. This terror was wrought for the most part by Apaches, Comanches, and other raiding tribes of the plains and deserts. It may not have produced a thousand deserts. But it produced some.
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