"With a scope as broad and sweeping as the Southern Plains itself, Los Llaneros charts the region's centuries-long, but mostly forgotten, ethnic Mexican and Native Plains past. Delightfully revelatory, these essays uncover a rich tapestry of Llano Estacado's peoples, inter-relationships, economies, politics, art, and literature. Forgotten no more, thanks to this deeply grounded volume, the Southern Plains' fascinating history now rests in your hands."Sherry L. Smith editor of The Future of the Southern Plains
"What a group of truly superb scholars has fashioned with Los Llaneros is no less than a re-invention of the Southern High Plains sense of self. Long summed up as stories of Comanches, Palo Duro Canyon, Charles Goodnight, and Georgia O'Keeffe, Llano Estacado history has been overdue an epiphany. This book provides a stunner." Dan Flores, New York Times bestselling author of Coyote America and Caprock Canyonlands: Journeys into the Heart of the Southern Plains
"This edited collection undergirds the editors' proposition that since the 16th century, the Southern Plains have persisted as a 'historical and cultural homeland' of ethnic Mexicans. Sound in analysis and firm in its contention, this groundbreaking study fortifies the long-existing scholarship in the fields of Borderlands and Chicano history." Arnoldo De León, author of Mexican Americans in West Texas: The Borderlands of the Edwards Plateau and the Trans-Pecos
"Los Llaneros is a provocative meditation on the vexed meanings of Mexican ethnicity and influence in the so-called American West. The volume, taken as a whole, invites readers to think hard about the nature of identity, especially the binaries between 'Indigenous' and 'colonial.' Los Llaneros is a must-read for students of the Southern Plains' deeply complicated past."Paul Barba, author of Country of the Cursed and the Driven: Slavery and the Texas Borderlands
"This groundbreaking volume bridges disciplinary boundaries, offering a llanero sensibility that highlights the complexity of borderlands subjects navigating contested cultural and spatial claims on the Southern Plains."Aimee Villarreal, Texas State University
