| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.1

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.1 | The History Cooperative

*El Cerrito, New Mexico: Eight Generations in a Spanish Village.* By Richard L. Nostrand. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. xviii + 267 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, glossary, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95.)
This cultural geography study of El Cerrito, a tiny village in central New Mexico, is a labor of love. Since 1979, Richard Nostrand has returned to this community more than a hundred times and has even purchased the schoolhouse ruins with hopes of restoring the building as a museum.	1
The work is based on government censuses, church records, homesteading documents, and interviews with local residents. El Cerrito reveals Nostrand's exceptional talent putting together a compelling story about a community for which scant traditional documentation survives. There are no personal papers, private correspondence, or newspaper articles to reconstruct the history of the village during the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Yet the author effectively manages to piece together the surviving records to provide a remarkable interpretation of how and why this tiny village has barely managed to survive.	. . .

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