![]() | Turmoil on the Rio Grande The mid-nineteenth century was a tumultuous yet formative time for the Mesilla Valley, home to present-day Las Cruces, New Mexico. With the coming of the U.S. Army to Mexican territory in 1846, the region became the site of a continent-shaping power struggle between two rival nations. WILLIAM S. KISER, a student in the graduate program at Arizona State University in Tempe, is a young historian with a keen interest in the American West of the nineteenth century. This is his first book.
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