| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Kelly F. Himmel. The Conquest of the Karankawas and the Tonkawas, 1821–1859. (Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest, number 20.) College Station: Texas A&M University Press. 1999. Pp. xvi, 192. $32.95.

Despite the fact that Texas had many diverse Indian tribes living within its borders before the twentieth century, until recently most historical studies have focused on the buffalo-hunting Comanche Indians and their struggles with the United States after the Civil War. In the past few years, however, scholars have redressed the neglect of the other indigenous peoples of Texas by producing works that examine agricultural tribes and hunters and gatherers, longtime residents as well as recent emigrants, paying particular attention to their relations with various Euro-Americans from the colonial era through annexation. Kelly F. Himmel's fine study of the Karankawa and Tonkawa Indians is a part of this recent trend, as it focuses on the conquest of two heretofore neglected tribes during the period from Mexican Independence to the eve of the Civil War. . . .

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