| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.2

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Rudy V. Busto. King Tiger: The Religious Vision of Reies López Tijerina. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 260. $29.95.
"King Tiger," so dubbed by the press, is the flamboyant, defiant Mexican American activist Reies López Tijerina, best remembered for his daring raid on a New Mexico courthouse in 1967 but then all but forgotten (or forsaken) by both his militant supporters and historians in general. By probing his religious motivations, the author of this intriguing and erudite book, Rudy V. Busto, examines Tijerina's eccentricities, shifts in consciousness and behavior, and disappearance from historiography. While sympathetic toward his subject, the author attempts not to place the man back on a pedestal, but rather to bring his remarkable life into focus through the content and tenor of the religious texts that he wrote and preached. To many, Tijerina's rantings, insistences, and certainties may seem bizarre, bordering on or lodged in insanity, but Busto meticulously traces their origins and development through the charismatic leader's religious training and beliefs integrated with and mediated by his life's experiences.	1
Reies López Tijerina was born in 1926, in south central Texas, the fifth of eventually ten children in a poor, sharecropping family subject to a racial caste system that early on embittered the youth. Proselytized by evangelical Protestants, he embraced Pentecostalism and in 1944 entered an Assemblies of God seminary and became an itinerant preacher in that faith. Within a decade, however, he had become disillusioned with the sinfulness and corruption in both religious and secular institutions everywhere and so founded a utopian community outside Phoenix, Arizona. Called the Valle de Paz (Valley of Peace), it succumbed within a year to the pressures of unpunished vandalism by outsiders, theft charges against Tijerina, and commercial agriculture and residential development in the area.	. . .

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