Historical documentation of 1948 and 1952 rural life on the Mesa in Yuma, Arizona . Homesteads won by war veterans were not a gift, but earned with sweat, hard

The first ever history of the post-World War II homesteading program that provided frontier land to returning veterans. Reveals the many challenges they faced--

There are few places where mobility has shaped identity as widely as the American West, but some locations and populations sit at its major crossroads, maintain

The arrival of telegraphy and railroads changed power relations throughout the world in the nineteenth century. In the Mesilla region of the American Southwest,