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Book Review
| The Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1820–1875. By Gary Clayton Anderson. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005. x, 494 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8061-3698-7.)
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| Scholarship on the Texas frontier is still polarized between exculpatory accounts of pioneers and Texas Rangers, and specialized works on Texas's diverse Indian peoples. Gary Clayton Anderson's prodigiously researched new book is the first to integrate a sophisticated understanding of Texas's Indians into the political narrative of the state's nineteenth-century history. |
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