Apaches as well as Mexican villages. Mexican bandits sometimes disguised

themselves as Apaches to cover cattle thefts, and by the mid nineteenth century, Anglo-Americans venturing into the region complicated the situation still further. Griffen does an excellent job of noting the many variables that affected these interactions, from outbreaks of smallpox among the Apache to shifts in Mexican government policies resulting from changes in administration. The work also makes it clear that many peaceful overtures, beginning with the Mexican government's inheritance of the earlier Spanish peace establishments associated with the Galvez reforms, punctuated the phases of more intense and widespread hostility. As a classroom text, this book might be better suited for advanced students and seminars rather than introductory courses. The richness of detail may confuse rather than clarify what is, after all, an immensely complex