Susan Wallace's Land of the Pueblos offers a richly detailed history and first-person narrative of the New Mexico Territory and the American Southwest from the arrival of the earliest Spanish Conquistadores; the systematic genocide of native American peoples; claims, claim jumpers and lost mines; the Mexican American War; and the then turbulent, violent, lawless period from1878-1881 as she accompanied her husband, Gen. Lew Wallace as he governed the New Mexico Territory.

Illustrations by Gen. Lew Wallace.