Review - "Coast-to-Coast Empire: Manifest Destiny and the New Mexico Borderlands" by William Kiser
[Coast-to-Coast Empire: Manifest Destiny and the New Mexico Borderlands by William S. Kiser (University of Oklahoma Press, 2018). Hardcover, maps, photos, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Pages main/total:xi,184/284. ISBN:978-0-8061-6026-9. $32.95] Though many nineteenth-century Americans viewed the Desert Southwest as a danger-filled wasteland unworthy of national possession and