Paul Horgan
1 Paul Horgan's best
This book is the best ever written on the history of the southwest along the Rio Grande. Horgan manages to capture the shared history of New Mexico, Texas and Mexico as no other historian/writer has ever done. This one will be around as long as readers want to understand history in the borderlands.
2 Most complete introduction to the Rio Grande Valley
This two-volume series was my inroduction to Paul Horgan who became one of my favorite authors. It is interesting to note he and Frank Waters ('the Man who Killed the Deer') died recently just two weeks apart. They were both 92, and among the greatest authors who dealt with the Rio Grande. Mr. Hogan's dedication to detail set him apart from Willa Cather whose fame rests upon her book 'Death comes to the Archbishop,' using Lamy as her subject. She rejected the aproach of Paul Horgan who at the time was writing his own history, 'Lamy of Santa Fe.' Willa Cather was a novelist; Paul Horgan an historian, and of the two I prefer the truth. Anyone interested in the history of the Rio Grande will be delighted with Paul Horgan's two-volume introduction to it.
3 Horgan's masterpiece history of the Rio Grande river.
One of the major materpieces of American historical writing. The
two volumes are a continuing delight, far better than any historical novel.
Scene succeds scene, filled with movement, passion and
unbelievable heroism. Won the Pulitzer and Bancroft Prizes
for History, and is considered the greatest history of the
Rio Grande from pre-Columbian time to mid 20th century.
