We Fed Them Cactus (Paso Por Aqui Series on the Nuevomexicano Literary Heritage)
. . . from family records, church and state documents, and the stories of early-day Llano settlers, . . . Miss Cabeza de Baca has pieced together the history of the region, its people and their lives. It reads, not like a scholarly treatise, but like a collection of fondly remembered experiences by nostalgic old-timers, which it largely is. . . . the pictures evoked are sharp and dramatic. "We Fed Them Cactus" is an important and easy-to-read piece of genuine Southwest Americana.