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with the Boundary Survey is now lost. In the process, he reaches several
conclusions about Bartlett as an artist and corrects several long-standing
errors: a picture bearing the title of "At Lost Camp Texas" now seems to
be "At Lost Camp Arizona."
All of Bartlett's familiar images are here with Mueller's extensive com-
ments: Prairie on Fire-From the Rio Grande to Corpus Christi, Texas; Snow-
Storm on Delaware Creek, near the Pecos River, Texas; Church and Plaza, El
Paso, Chihuahua; and Guadalupe Mountain and Pass, Texas. And there are,
as one would suspect, a number of images that have not appeared in any
previous publication, such as View near Guadalupe River, Fredericksburg,
which Bartlett painted in October 1850 as he passed through the Texas
Hill Country.
In sum, the Annotated Guide to the Artwork of the United States Boundary
Commission is clearly a labor of love and will be immensely useful to any-
one interested in these specific images or in paintings of the Southwest
at mid-century.
In 193os Texas neither Tejanos nor women had much voice. But
Elena Zamora O'Shea, a descendant of an old Spanish land-grant family
in South Texas, found an ingenious way to publish her region's history
and to help Mexican Americans know their proud heritage. In El
Mesquite, first published in 1935 and long out of print, O'Shea, a long-
time schoolteacher, tells her story from the perspective of an ancient
mesquite tree under whose branches much history has passed. O'Shea
fills that history with the details of daily life such as songs, local plants
and folk medicines, foods and recipes, relationships between landown-
ers and settlers, and the Tejano ranch vocabulary. Now with new intro-
ductions by Leticia M. Garza-Falc6n and Andr6s Tijerina, El Mesquite can
again inform readers of the way of life that first shaped Texas. Order
this unique view of Tejano history for $27.95, cloth, or $15.95, paper,
from Texas A&M University Press at 800/826-8911 or http://www
.tamu.edu/upress.
In Shavetails & Bell Sharps: The History of the U.S. Army Mule (reviewed
in the SHQ, July 1998), Emmett M. Essin argues that the pack mule was
the U.S. Army's "most important four-legged animal." Although much
less glamorous than the cavalryman's horse, pack mules were an indis-
pensable adjunct to army movement from the Mexican War through
World War II. Essin carefully traces this history of the ubiquitous yet
nearly invisible "work animal of the army" and accompanies his text with
twenty-one photographs. The book is available for $19.95, paper, from603
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