Forty-Seventh Star: New Mexico's Struggle for Statehood
“Forty-Seventh Staris the most complete, original, readable, and lively account of the sixty-year struggle between pro-statehood leaders and equally powerful anti-statehood forces, both in New Mexico and in Washington, D.C., that I have ever read. Equally significant is Holtby’s nonpartisan treatment, without prejudice, of Nuevomexicanos, Euro-Americans, and Indian Americans and their views. In short, this is the most important book about the New Mexican struggle for statehood to appear in a generation.”—Howard R. Lamar,Professor Emeritus of History, Yale University