Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 117, Issue 4 (April 2014)

Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 117, No. 4 (April 2014).

This issue includes historical scholarship and documentary material concerning arts and culture, cities and communities, civil war, and mexican american history.

In this issue:

• Marvelous, Maligned, and Misunderstood: The Strange History of the Mesquite Tree in Texas — Jason E. Pierce
• The Captivity of Macario Leal: A Tejano among the Comanches, 1847–1854 — Joaquín Rivaya-Martínez
• Sam Houston Returns?: Two Letters from Texas Secessionists in 1863

Published by the Texas State Historical Association.