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awe yet respect for the area. T h e comparison of geologic time with that of everyday living lends a spirit of reality to the various historical events of the area. T h e book has a beneficial effect by introducing the reader to t h e lesser known areas, thus reducing the impact of tourism on the more specific a n d better publicized localities. Throughout the entire book the impact of man on the Sierra is brought to mind, thereby giving a greater realization of the potential danger of man's misuse of nature a n d its resources.
As long as m a n lives on the earth, future generations will contain those individuals who will long for the firsthand experiences with the wonders of nature found only in back country such as the Sierra. This well-written book can a n d will delightfully introduce to them the Mighty Sierra.
Occupied Struggle
ica gives a Chicano view of Manifest Destiny a n d its impact on the people of California, Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico. "As such," Acuna notes (p. 122), "it is filled with the feelings a n d beliefs—the emotions—of Chicanos. But it is a perspective that must be considered, for it is based on the reactions of Chicanos against continuing repression, against inequities, against second-class citizenship."
America: Toward
RUDOLFO ACUNA.
The Chicano's Liberation. By (San
Francisco:
Harper & Row Publishers, Inc., Canfield Press, 1972. vi 4-282 pp. Paper, $3.95.) This book by a Chicano historian at California State University at Northridge reviews the occupation of the American Southwest during the nineteenth century by the United States and the Chicano's struggle for liberation in the twentieth. Acuna views the Mexican-American W a r as an imperialistic conquest which was followed by the oppression of Mexicans in the United States. His thesis is that social domination a n d subjugation of the native population was a form of colonialism from which the Chicano has sought relief in recent years. Designed for use as a text, but of broad general interest, Occupied Amer-
RICHARD W. M O Y L E
Professor of Geology Weber State College
The
Western
of Law
Peace Officer: A Legacy
and Order.
By F R A N K R I C H -
ARD PRASSEL. ( N o r m a n : University of Oklahoma Press, 1972. xiii 4-330
pp. $8.95.) Prassel's observation that police work in the late nineteenth century Wrest differed very little from the routine of modern agencies a n d his conclusion that "frontier lawmen did not bring;
