| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.2

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War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War. By Brian DeLay. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. xxii, 473 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-300-11932-9.)

Brian DeLay's study of an endemic war between Mexicans and native peoples adds important dimensions to our understanding of the two decades that preceded the Mexican-American War of 1846. Using a variety of unusual sources, the author describes the bitter borderland rivalries that enfeebled Mexican settlers and soldiers alike from 1830 onward. Creating as many as a thousand deserted villages and ranches, this conflict both facilitated and justified the ensuing expansion of the United States into northern Mexico.

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