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Løtveit, Morten, “Pancho Villa and the Junta Constitucionalista: The Role of an Urban Middle-Class Group in the Formation of the Villista Movement in 1913,” New Mexico Historical Review, 85 (Spring 2010), 131–53.

Osborne, Thomas J., “Pacific Eldorado: Rethinking Greater Califoria’s Past,” California History, 87 (no. 1, 2009), 26–45.

 

Agnew, Jeremy, Medicine in the Old West: A History, 1850–1900. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2010. xii, 252 pp. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-7864-4623-0.) Heavily illustrated.

Bagley, Will, So Rugged and Mountainous: Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812–1848. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010. xxii, 458 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8061-4103-9.)

Cullen, David O’Donald, and Kyle G. Wilkison, eds., The Texas Left: The Radical Roots of Lone Star Liberalism. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2010. x, 243 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 978-1-60344-175-9. Paper, $23.95, isbn 978-1-60344-189-6.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

DeArment, Robert K., and Jack DeMattos, A Rough Ride to Redemption: The Ben Daniels Story. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010. xvi, 246 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8061-4112-1.)

Gastil, Raymond D., and Barnett Singer, The Pacific Northwest: Growth of a Regional Identity. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2010. vi, 221 pp. 38.00, isbn 978-0-7864-4540-0.)

Grear, Charles David, Why Texans Fought in the Civil War. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2010. xvi, 239 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-1-60344-172-8.)

Inglis, Robin, Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Northwest Coast of America. (Lanham: Scarecrow, 2008. lxxvi, 429 pp. $121.00, isbn 978-0-8108-5551-9.)

Stone, Bryan Edward, The Chosen Folks: Jews on the Frontiers of Texas. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010. xviii, 294 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-0-292-72177-7.)

For more citations in this and other categories, please consult Recent Scholarship Online.

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