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Book Review

New Mexican Lives: Profiles and Historical Stories. Edited by Richard W. Etulain. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002. viii + 334 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliographic essays, index. $39.95, cloth; $21.95, paper.)

     Richard Etulain believes that history can be told through the lives of emblematic individuals. With that in mind, he asked twelve scholars to examine the careers of fourteen New Mexicans and "demonstrate how each of these lives illustrated or broke from the main currents of the state's history" (p. 2). His purpose is to provide students and general readers with an engaging and evocative introduction to the major themes of New Mexico history. It is a credit to Etulain's skill as a historian and an editor that he succeeds splendidly. . . .

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