if you want to go to Mexico please use the train!

This work reviews the efforts of seven Americans and their motivations for developing the rail systems and mines of Mexico. Although published in 1958, it is still one of the best works on this subject. The seven Americans covered are General William Rosecrans, Edward Plumb, Albert K. Owen, U.S. Grant, Alexander Shepherd, William Greene, and Arthur Stilwell. They came from different backgrounds and achieved different levels of success in Mexico. Some went bankrupt. In the end, the Mexican Revolution removed the chance to make large returns on capital investments. There are footnotes, but no bibliography. This is worth the time for anybody interested in the history of Mexico or of railroads.

This book has 29 true short stories of people who lived in New Mexico, when it was a territory. Each story is about 2-5 pages long. There are some black and white pictures of these same people included in the book.

What a wonderful book. I particularly liked these were people who lived in New Mexico and that I could look at the pictures of each person as I read about them. This author has certainly done a lot of research. I have read a lot of New Mexico history and this book is gem. Many of the stories were ones that I had never heard before. Because the stories are short, it is easy to pick the book up for 15 or 20 minutes, read a story and put it down without losing your place. I appreciated the humor that Marc Simmons displays through out this book, many of these short stories end on a humorous note.

This is a great book about the people who lived in New Mexico when it was still being formed into a state. It certainly provides a history of New Mexico through a different slant. I enjoyed every minute of reading it. My husband read it and enjoyed it as well.

I buy their altas about every other year. I wouldn't be without one in my vehicle.This book gives you much more the just maps. I like the sections called "Survival strategies for the most popular parks" and "Undiscovered Treasures: Looking for an alternative to the buiest parks." This is a well put together atlas that keeps getting better with each year

Unlike other disorienting works by other authors in this field, you can depend on this work to keep you headed in the right direction at all times (or time zones, as the case may be). Just remember to fold properly between chapters (outings?) and always remember that anytime you're going uphill, you're pointed north.

this book literally changed my life. i am now devoted to the zapatista cause and studying latin american politics. even though this book is kind of outdated it is easy to pick up where it left off in 1995 through various articles and marcos' communiques. read it!!!

this book started off intense and full of political emotion and it never backed down. if you would like a real and emotional story of who workers are, the opression they face, and the breaking point for them, then i suggest this book. i remember being outraged, shocked, disgusted throughout the book.....and then the ending...well it's full of sweet vengenace. real people, real life, real solutions....that's what this book is about.

If my great grandmother had written a cookbook, this would have been it!
I own a copy (that I bought 15 years ago) and had to get one for my father. This book has the recipes his mother prepared for him in 1928 in México, and he had never been able to get a hold of a good enough book.
It is a very good book, written in spanish, but with very easy straight forward instructions. Some recipes, I might add, are so old, that they are kind of funny....

As a native of Northern New Mexico, I often see all sorts of photo books documenting the touristic attractions to the area. However, Alex Harris' book acurately documents the real life of rural northern New Mexico. The best you could buy!!

In this book, Deena Gonzalez made women like my ancestral grandmothers come alive. I used what I learned from Dr. Gonzalez's book to annotate a speaker presentation that I developed and an academic article that I wrote. The subject women's courage and strength made me proud to know more about my Spanish-Mexican grandmothers and to claim my own ethnic identity. The study that Dr. Gonzalez conducted tells how the women of that time in Santa Fe suffered and their loss in status after the American take over. I highly recommend this book for students and anyone who wants to know more about the women of the period.