War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War (The Lamar Series in Western History)

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In the early 1830s, after decades of relative peace, northern Mexicans and the Indians whom they known as “the barbarians” descended into a terrifying cycle of violence. For the next fifteen years, owing in part to changes unleashed by American expansion, Indian warriors launched devastating attacks across ten Mexican states. Raids and counter-raids claimed thousands of lives, ruined much of northern Mexico’s economy, depopulated its countryside, and left man-made “deserts” instead of thriving settlements. Just as essential, this vast interethnic war informed and emboldened U.S. arguments in favor of seizing Mexican territory whilst leaving northern Mexicans too divided, exhausted, and distracted to withstand the American invasion and subsequent occupation.

         

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 up to now unrecognized ways wherein economic, cultural, and political developments within native communities affected nineteenth-century nation-states. In the process this ambitious book offers a wealthy and steadily harrowing new narrative of the era when america seized half of Mexico’s national territory.

 

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