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Lavina is a ten-year-old girl who lives at the Bosque Ranch in the Arizona territory in the early 1900's. Her mother died, and her father is sending her to live in California with her aunt. When she arrives, she steps into a whole different world. Sometimes her Aunt Agnes reminds her of her father. Her aunt has a daughter named Maude, and Maude has a daughter, Aggie, who is eight. It's hard to get along with Aggie, but Lavina makes friends at school. Lavina has a fight with her aunt one night, and she plans to run away in the morning, but something big happens before she gets the chance. This is a well-written book.

Fans of historic San Miguel de Allende -- as well as armchair travelers -- will delight in this colorful photo collection depicting one of the world's best-loved cities. The dramatic, finely reproduced images from more than 30 photographers are evenly matched by thoughtful commentary and impressions. No other book that I'm aware of captures the heart and soul of San Miguel so well. A "must-have" for anyone who has fallen under the spell of this magical Mexican town!

This is the best book on volcanoes I have ever read. It give a good general discription of volcanic action in general and how lava is formed. It is very well written.

I just finished reading Walking Between Worlds, and I enjoyed it very much. I loved the diary-type story and it gave me a new perspective on bridges, friendships, coincidences, dreams, and even predestination as well as religion and many other things. I honestly could not put the book down once I started reading it. When I got to the end of the novel I was relieved to learn that Roland had actually survived to tell his story. There were times while reading the novel when I was sure I would eventually learn that Roland would "meet his demise", and or succumb to some negative "higher powers". In fact, while reading it I "guessed ahead" that the book's ending would reveal someone else was writing this story from the deceased Roland's diary. So to me, the novel was a diary and also a mystery with a happy ending. I finally learned that Roland was smart enough and stubborn enough to survive in spite of some of life's most negative offerings. The novel also forced me to pause and give thought to several emotions and feelings (both positive and negative). Among those were loneliness, approval, rejection, trust, anger, lust, and even revenge. The book was truly a stimulating and thought provoking novel. Thanks so much Mr. Alquzok for writing Walking Between Worlds. It was a great novel, and I very much enjoyed reading it.

Reading Wandering Peoples brought to my mind a pleasant afternoon I spent several years ago traveling from San Ignacio Rio Mayo, Sonora, to Alamos, Sonora, with four Mexican friends, at least two of whom occasionally referred to themselves as Mayo Indians. We were going to Alamos because one my friends, Joel Casaraz, wanted a treatment from "Don Juanito", a "real Indian" who was famous as a "sobador" or masseuse. We developed quite a discussion as to just what it means to be "indian" in Sonora, since two of my companions considered themselves "Mayo Indians" but not "real Indians" like "Don Juanito." We wondered why certain other people we knew were "Mexicans," "real Indians" or something in between.

Our results came down to differences in life style, dress (they wore boots, he wore sandals) and language (they spoke primarily Spanish, he spoke very fluent Mayo). But they all had the same Mayo genes, were similar in appearance, and had grown up in Mayo speaking villages. Finally, Jonatan Ramirez gave the conclusion we all accepted: to really understand you've just got to know the history of these lands for the last five hundred years!

I welcome a book like Wandering Peoples for the insight it gives into that history. Someone seriously interested in the history of Sonora and its peoples will want to become acquainted with this book. There are chapters meriting study from the historian, and other chapters are more for an anthropologist. Wandering Peoples deals with the late Colonial to early National period in central and northern Sonora. Radding knows her stuff, and shows an intimate knowledge of the region and its history. I especially appreciated understanding of the variation in interests among Spanish and Indian groups.

She defines "social ecology" as an approach based in the ecological relations that guide the "political implications of resource allocation," and determines how people "ascribe cultural values to their claims to land and labor." Clearly, the indigenous peoples had very different concepts of land use and mobility that would directly clash with the Spanish agenda.

There is a good discussion of native history both before and after the arrival of the Europeans, in particular describing land-use patterns that conflicted with Spanish concepts. There is a good treatment of the difficulties imposed by the climate and the unstable nature of agricultural production, and how these forced a dispersed settlement pattern. It seems almost surreal how little things have changed: lack of water is the major obstacle to life and development in Hermosillo and most of Sonora to this day. The discussion of the pre Colombian archaeology is quite good. She focuses especially on the Trincheras and Rio Sonora traditions.

There follows the history of Spanish colonial exploitation of Sonora differed primarily because of the lack of large-scale polities that could be easily tapped into, and due to the degree of nomadism practiced by northern groups. The Crown relied on evangelization for a Spanish presence, primarily embodied in members of the Jesuit order, such as Padre Eusebio Kino. The expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767 left other Spanish colonists free to ensnare the Indians in debt servitude, even as Bourbon reforms continued to break up communal lands into private holdings.

Radding explains how Indian households responded by becoming considerably more flexible; they accepted new members who had lost their own families, and temporary sexual unions formed while males were away at mining camps. These impermanent family structures clashed with Spanish, particularly missionary, ideals, and were yet another source of ethnic conflict. The migration of Indians away from the missions undermined the communal land system, the invasion of the region by cattle herds led to increased erosion and destruction of agricultural land. Furthermore, men joining the military for long campaigns against the raiding, nomadic Apaches left many of their towns starved for labor.

The author show how the invading whites were slowly gaining control of land and water rights, in a treatment reminiscent of invasions of Seri, Yaqui, and Mayo land in recent years. The advance of Bourbon reforms brought increasingly formal procedures of land ownership for which the Indians were unprepared. The land grabs that followed continued to chip away at communal land holdings until little was left, and the incentive even to retain Indian identity disappeared. The final dismantling of communal and mission lands under the new Mexican republic, provoked by the needs of a growing non-Indian population in the far northwest.

This book achieves well the purpose of a detailed study of the adjustments of certain Sonora indigenous groups to the European conquest. I recommend it to those interested in the history of Sonora.

--The War Between the United States and Mexico-- is a work by George Willkins Kendall and has been beautifully illustrated by Carl Nebel. The work in question, is a testimony to American expansionism, and narrates in detail each battle fought in Mexican soil.

Carl Nebel dedicated several years to illustrate the events of the Mexican American War and followed the traveling footsteps of Alexander Von Humboldt in Mexico. Nebel provides a magnificent illustration of one of the most important and hardbreaking moment of Mexican History: September 14, 1847 - the ocupation of The Zocalo.

A very important historical work that helps to understand with great detail and from a different perspective an all important moment in American History. An event that certainly changed the U.S. not only by adding vast new territories (California, New Mexico, Nevada, Colorado, Arizona, Utah, and Wyoming), but also by taking the first steps on becoming a superpower.

I must admit my bias right up front. The authors previous book entitled Border Fury, which combined a photo study of the Revolution with a history of the postcard industry, drew heavily on my collection of period postcards. That one was excellently done by the UNM Press and so is this one. This covers the phases of the Mexican Revolution in the northeast around Matamoros, right across the Rio Grande del Norte from Brownsville. Located as it is downstream from the Big Bend country and seperated by mountains from the central valley between the two main chains which run north and south, this area was little settled on either side until the Anglos built a railway to the border around 1900. With the opening of access to markets for tropical agricultural crops in the North this semi tropical area began to fill up with Anglo towns on the north side of the river. This area became known as the Lower Valley to distinguish it from the El Paso, Juarez area of the upper valley. The sparsely settled country had always been a hotbed of banditry, dominated by the enormous King Ranch, which was almost as large as Delaware. Race relations were typical of the times, in a word, bad. The area was politically dominated by the cacique or patron (godfather) system. If you have seen the film Lone Star with Kris Kristofferson, you will see that things had not changed much by the fifties. Social unrest, and border raids were exacerbated by the unsettled conditions south of the River; although the campaigning in the area was not decisive in the fighting between Villistas and Carranzistas in 1914 and 1915. The notorious Plan of San Diego, which called for reconquest of the old area of New Spain taken in the Mexican War and a general massacre of all Anglo males over the age of puberty, became a highly charged issue between Anglos and Chicanos. This fantastic plot was taken seriously by the Anglos and the Texas Rangers became highly feared as they carried out a race war to keep down the Chicano population. Right in the midst of these doings was Robert Runyon, a professional photographer located in Brownsville. Probably the most famous image of his atelier was one taken after the Norias raid (a group of bandits laid siege to a remote ranchhouse) in which a mounted Ranger is shown dragging away the corpse of one of the raiders at the end of a rope. This made a sensation in the press as it was not apparent from the photo that this episode was not a typical lynching. This book can be read with interest both by the general reader, the photo historian, and the local historian. It is a well made book typical of those sponsored by the Texas State Historical Association.

This is a primary resource for the war with Mexico. I am writing a novel based substantially on his historical details. Greatly impressed that he interviewed one of the Chapultepec cadets that fought in the battle; he visited the sites of the major battles. Extensive footnotes. He is referenced by many writers. General Taylor's movements covered in Vol. 1. General Scott's campaign covered in Vol. 2. These are collector's items if they can be found!

It's unfortunate that this book is out of print. Based on interpretation of primary sources ( how I was taught to write history papers ), the author covers several hundred years of Mesoamerican military history. The bulk of the book deals with the Mexica alliance in general and the Atzecs in particular. The illustrations and maps are superb. As cited elsewhere, I recommend this book in addition to Aztec, Mixtec, and Zapotec Armies and The Conquistadores by Osprey. The casual reader will gather the main points made by more scholarly and less readable works.