Description: Explores the complex ways that myth and history have intersected in the remembrance of the Southwest's Hispanic past.
Brief description: David J. Weber (1940-2010) was the founding director of the Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University and the author of more than twenty books on the Southwest borderlands.
Review Quotes: "As a major interpreter of the field's scholarship, Weber's works will become guides for the future writing of Spanish, Mexican, and nineteenth-century Mexican American history."