| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.3

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Book Review

Salt Warriors: Insurgency on the Rio Grande. By Paul Cool. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. xviii, 360 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-1-60344-016-5.)

Save for some historians of the Texas Rangers or the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, few scholars have examined the El Paso Salt War in any depth. The conflict erupted on December 12, 1877, when the Anglo lawyer Charles Howard intercepted a group of Mexicans returning from the Guadalupe Salt Lakes. Area residents had used the deposits for centuries, enjoying communal privileges first established by the Spanish Crown and later recognized by the Republic of Mexico. Whites such as Howard who came to the region after the Civil War, however, attempted to lay exclusive claim to such resources, engendering deep resentment among the much larger Mexican population. Howard's attempt to arrest the freighters touched off a massive popular revolt that was joined by hundreds of Mexicans from both sides of the Rio Grande. They besieged Howard and the small Ranger squad sent to protect him in the nearby town of San Elizario. The smaller group surrendered five days later; Howard and two others were executed by firing squad. Within days the U.S. Army and white vigilantes had reestablished control in the area, and the vigilantes exacted revenge on numerous innocent Paseños.

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