Turmoil on the Rio Grande: History of the Mesilla Valley, 1846-1865 - Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest

The mid-nineteenth century was a tumultuous yet formative time for the Mesilla Valley, home to present-day Las Cruces, New Mexico. In Turmoil on the Rio Grande, William S. Kiser has mined primary archives and secondary materials alike to tell the story of those rough-and-tumble years and to highlight the effect the region had in the developing US empire of the West.