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Galeyville, Arizona, has long been reputed as a town rife with outlaws,
gamblers and miners who lived life to the extreme. Brook White has
meticulously researched, analyzed, and interpreted that reputation and
the legends around it in Galeyville, Arizona Territory i88o: Its History and
Historic Archeology. Using historic records and his own archeological tech-
niques, White has examined every aspect of this town's existence, from
the area's geology and climatology before the creation of Galeyville to
the detection of notorious outlaw Curly Bill Brocious's signature on a
cave wall outside of town. Historians, scientists, and anyone who loves
the "Old West" will find this a fascinating read. Galeyville, Arizona Territory
is available for $34.95 in hardback and can be ordered toll-free from
Baker & Taylor at 800/775-1100.
The University of North Texas Press has released a very nice paper-
back reprint of the Texas Folklore Society's Built in Texas, a handsomely
illustrated survey of the Lone Star's built environment. Originally pub-
lished in 1979, Built in Texas is number 42 in the Folklore Society's pub-
lications series. The book provides a good introduction to folk
buildings, fencing, water storage, construction methods, and restora-
tion and preservation efforts as of the 1970s. The collection of essays,
edited by Francis Abernathy and including line drawings by Reese
Kennedy, is a great buy at $29.95.
In 1598, Juan de Ofiate carried out the Spanish occupation of New
Mexico. As part of the endeavor, he sent out a number of expeditions
to reconnoiter the surrounding country. Vincente de Zaldivar led one
of these parties onto the Buffalo Plains, where the Spaniards not only
encountered the wooly cattle that so astounded them, but Plains Indians
whose exotic lifeways made an equally profound impression. In the pre-
sent translation of Zaldivar's report, carefully translated by John H. R.
Polt and analyzed by Jerry Craddock, both of the Spanish Department at
the University of California, Berkeley, readers will find not only a clear
translation but facsimile reproductions of the text, annotated transcrip-
tions, and a comparison of Zaldivar's account with Villagra's Historia de
la Nueva Mixico. This 125-page paperback is available from the William
P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University.
For those interested in early Anglo settlers in Texas, Ruth Priest
Dixon has recently published a family history, Minjamin Priest and His
Family from William Penn's Colony to East Texas z 684-1884. The Priest fam-
ily came to Texas in 1847. Dixon traces the family's migration, following2000
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