Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
1992
Abstract
The subject of this lively, well-written book is Manuel Alvarez, an important but neglected figure who played a key role in New Mexican and western affairs under the Mexican and U. S. government. A Spaniard by birth, a Mexican by expediency, and a trader by inclination, Alvarez was an avid reader, deeply interested in history, who believed that worldly happiness came to the man who thought justly, acted uprightly, and lived usefully
Comments
Published in GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY 12:3 (Summer 1992). Copyright © 1992 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.