Country of the Cursed and the Driven: Slavery and the Texas Borderlands (Borderlands and Transcultural Studies)
2022 WHA W. Turrentine Jackson Award for best first book on the history of the American West
2022 WHA David J. Weber Prize for the best book on Southwestern History
In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century…
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