"Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-455) and index.
Introduction: A little door -- Prologue: Easy stories -- PART 1. NEIGHBORS: 1. Danger and community ; 2. Buffalo-hide quiver ; 3. Plunder and partners ; 4. The politics of vengeance -- PART 2. NATIONS: 5. Indians don't unmake Presidents ; 6. Barbarians and dearer enemies ; 7. An eminently National War? ; 8. How to make a desert smile -- PART 3. CONVERGENCE: 9. A trophy of a new kind in war : 10. Polk's blessing -- Epilogue: Article 11.
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"Exploring Mexican, American, and Indian sources ranging from diplomatic correspondence and congressional debates to captivity narratives and plains Indians' pictorial calendars, War of a Thousand Deserts recovers the surprising and previously unrecognized ways in which economic, cultural, and political developments within native communities affected nineteenth-century nation-states. In the process this ambitious book offers a rich and often harrowing new narrative of the era when the United States seized half of Mexico's national territory."--Jacket.
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War of a thousand deserts.
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Indians of North America-- Wars-- Mexican-American Border Region.
Indians of North America-- Wars-- Mexico, North.
Mexican War, 1846-1848-- Indians.
Mexican War, 1846-1848-- Mexican-American Border Region.
Mexican War, 1846-1848-- Mexico, North.
Ethnic relations.
HISTORY-- United States-- State & Local-- Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)