| Book Review | Western Historical Quarterly, 32.1

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Book Review

Forgotten Texas Leader: Hugh McLeod and the Texas Santa Fe Expedition. By Paul N. Spellman. (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1999. xii + 235 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95.)

The name of Hugh McLeod rings no bell with most students of Texas history, to say nothing of the general populace of the state. And yet, the author contends, McLeod was one of the great voices of Texas, along with those of Mirabeau B. Lamar and Thomas Jefferson Rusk and his nemesis, Sam Houston. While McLeod "never had the stuff of which great leadership is made" (p. 6), his considerable contributions were erased by the assignment of blame to him for the failure of the 1841 Santa Fe expedition, which he had commanded. Justice calls for his elevation in the annals of history. Spellman is not convincing, but his biography is a judicious and meritorious one, based on extensive and careful research into both primary and secondary sources. . . .

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