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Reconnaissance in Sonora: Charles D. Poston’s 1854 Exploration of Mexico and the Gadsden Purchase by C. Gilbert Storms (review)

1996); John Nieto-Phillips’s The Language of Blood: The Making of SpanishAmerican Identity in New Mexico, 1880s–1930s (University of New Mexico Press, 2008); and David Holtby’s Forty-Seventh Star: New Mexico’s Struggle for Statehood (University of Oklahoma Press, 2012). Gonzales describes well how Nuevomexicanos readily adapted to American democracy and political structures, such as how the Mexican ayuntamiento transitioned to the American style of town government. However, having started his analysis at the dawn of the U.S.-Mexico War (mid-1840s), he misses the opportunity to question whether decisions by some influential ricos to send their children east on the Santa Fe Trail to be educated in Jesuit and American schools (rather than south to Chihuahua) played a role in familiarizing young Nuevomexicanos with the American political system—a situation he briefly describes about Territorial Delegate to the U.S. Congress José Francisco Chaves in the 1860s. Were these young leaders predisposed to affiliate with the Euroamericans, particularly during the initial transition? Were they influenced by the economic opportunities and development offered by Americans? With the knowledge that this book focuses on the first thirty years of the American period of New Mexico history, historians will find Política a detailed and valuable contribution to our understanding of Nuevomexicanos that expands our horizons beyond the previous political histories of Americano leaders in this same era.