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...Odie B. Faulk There is, both within and without the historical profession, a growing number of aficionados devoted to the study of arms and armament of the past—a curious phenomenon in a nation supposedly hellbent on peace. This volume represents an effort to compile a complete catalog...

...Odie B. Faulk * The author is Assistant Editor of Arizona and the West . Copyright 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 I t is fairly well-known among twentieth-century Americans that the open-range cattle industry originated in Spanish Texas more than a century before its...

...Odie Faulk The Natural and Human History of Baja California. From Manuscripts by Jesuit Missionaries . Translated and edited by Aschmann Homer . Los Angeles , 1966 . Dawson’s Book Shop . Baja California Travels Series, 7 . Illustrations. Maps. Notes . Pp. 101 . $10.00...

...Odie B. Faulk To Conquer a Peace: The War Between the United States and Mexico . By Weems John Edward . Garden City, New York , 1974 . Doubleday & Company . Maps. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xxv , 500 . Cloth. $12.50 . Copyright 1975 by Duke University Press...

...Odie B. Faulk While it is encouraging to find Mexican historians turning to a serious study of this subject, it is disheartening to discover that the bibliography excludes almost all of the many excellent works published in English. On this score the book leaves much to be desired. Its major...

...Odie B. Faulk Almaráz proves conclusively that Salcedo, while working under severe bureaucratic handicaps, was an innovative administrator and a strong governor—contrary to the picture previously painted of him by historians. Soundly documented and written in pleasant style, this volume is sound...

... orderly, systematic exposition, and even professional historians have seldom succeeded in presenting them credibly and understandably. The strength of Faulk’s slim volume is that it sets forth a readable, coherent, and generally well-balanced account of the Geronimo outbreak and the operations...

... against an inferior Latin culture by others. Faulk and Connor convincingly show that the Mexican government in the 1830s and ’40s was at best weak and divided. Moreover they demonstrate that Mexico was plagued by separatist movements not only in Texas but also in Yucatán, California, and what is now...

...John W. Caughey In Texas, as elsewhere in the Spanish borderlands, the closing decades of the Spanish period are the Dark Ages. Faulk’s Last Years of Spanish Texas , written from the sources, is a succinct summary of happenings, 1778-1821. It looks first at the governor, presidios, and missions...

.... Document One is reproduced in Odie B. Faulk, The Last Years of Spanish Texas (The Hague, 1964), and several scholars, including Faulk, R. N. Richardson, and Charles Kenner, have given a similar viewpoint of Spanish-Comanche relations after 1785. This little hook, nevertheless, gives the reader...

...Lota M. Spell A Successful Failure. The Saga of Texas, 1519-1810 . By Faulk Odie B. . Austin , 1965 . Steck-Vaughan Company . Illustrations. Index . Pp. 218 . $2.95 . The Revolutionary Decades. The Saga of Texas, 1810-1836 . By Vigness David M. . Austin , 1965...

... of the American Southwest . By Faulk Odie B. . New York , 1968 . Oxford University Press . Bibliography. Index . Pp. x , 358 . $7.50 . ...

... beyond solution, however, and it was inherited by the U. S. after 1848. Copyright 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 Lancers for the King. A Study of the Frontier Military System of Northern New Spain, a Translation of the Royal Regulations of 1772 . By Brinckhoff Sidney B. and Faulk...

..., and Archives” and the sections identified by time and place. The article by Odie B. Faulk, “Ranching in Spanish Texas,” is classified as “Colonial Mexico,” while Jack D. L. Holmes, “Some Economic Problems of Spanish Governors of Louisiana,” is “General Colonial.” Robin Humphreys, “Four Bibliographical Tools...

... and livestock raising is little known or understood, yet it had an impact long after Anglos arrived. While this observation has already been made by Sandra Myres and Odie Faulk, Jackson provides a detailed chronological account of this development using archival materials and his familiarity with secondary...

...John W. Caughey Parts of the history of San Juan-Guerrero have been covered by chroniclers such as Espinosa, Rubí, Lafora, Morfi, Pike, and Gregg and by historians such as Bolton, Castañeda, Alessio Robles, Hoffman, Kinnaird, Vigness, Brinkerhoff, Faulk, Avera Sánchez, Nance, and Horgan. Weddle...