The Spaniards, through Mexico, have had an abiding influence on the architecture and language of the Southwest. They gave us our most distinctive occupation, ranching on the open range. They influenced mining greatly, and our land titles and irrigation laws still go back to Spanish and Mexican sources. After more than a hundred years of occupation of Texas and almost that length of time in other parts of the Southwest, the English-speaking Americans still have the rich accumulations of lore pertaining to coyotes, mesquites, prickly pear, and many other plants and animals to learn from the Mexicans, who got their lore partly from intimate living with nature but largely through Indian ancestry. See "Fighting Texians," "Santa Fe and the Santa Fe Trail." AIKEN, RILEY. "A Pack Load of Mexican Tales," in _Puro Mexicano_, published by Texas Folklore Society, 1935. Now published by Southern Methodist University Press, Dallas. Delightful. ALEXANDER, FRANCES (and others). _Mother Goose on the Rio Grande_, Banks Upshaw, Dallas, 1944. Charming rhymes in both Spanish and English in charming form. APPLEGATE, FRANK G. _Native Tales of New Mexico_, Philadelphia, 1932. Delicious; the real thing. OP. ATHERTON, GERTRUDE. _The Splendid Idle Forties_, New York, 1902. Romance of Mexican California. AUSTIN, MARY. _One-Smoke Stories_, Boston, 1934. Short tales of Spanish-speaking New Mexicans, also of Indians. BANDELIER, A. F. _The Gilded Man_, New York, 1873. The dream of El Dorado. BARCA, MADAM CALDERON DE LA. _Life in Mexico_, 1843; reprinted by Dutton about 1930. Among books on Mexican life to be ranked first both in readability and revealing qualities. BELL, HORACE. _On the Old West Coast_, New York, 1930. A golden treasury of anecdotes. OP. BENTLEY, HAROLD W. _A Dictionary of Spanish Terms in English_, New York, 1932. In a special way this book reveals the Spanish-Mexican influence on life in the Southwest; it also guides to books in English that reflect this influence. OP. BISHOP, MORRIS. _The Odyssey of Cabeza de Vaca_, New York, 1933. Better written than Cabeza de Vaca's own narrative. OP. BLANCO, ANTONIO FIERRO DE. _The Journey of the Flame_, Boston, 1933. Bully and flavorsome; the Californias. OP. BOLTON, HERBERT E. _Spanish Exploration in the Southwest_, 1916. The cream of explorer narratives, well edited. _Coronado on the Turquoise Trail_ (originally published in New York, 1949, under the title _Coronado: Knight of Pueblos and Plains_; now issued by University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque). By his own work and by directing other scholars, Dr. Bolton has surpassed all other American historians of his time in output on Spanish-American history. _Coronado_ is the climax of his many volumes. Its fault is being too worshipful of everything Spanish and too uncritical. A little essay on Coronado in Haniel Long's _Pinon Country_ goes a good way to put this belegended figure into proper perspective.