title: Blood & Treasure: Confederate Empire in the Southwest (Texas a & M University Military History Series)
author:  Donald S. Frazier 
description: Long before secession, southern politicians dreamed of a slave empire reaching deep into Latin America. Frazier's superbly written work examines how that dream played out in the cauldron of the Civil War. Here there were no great set-piece battles with huge foraging armies slaughtering each other, as in the East. Rather, relatively small numbers of men stalked each other over huge expanses of virtually uninhabited land, where marauding Apaches often posed as great a threat as the opposing army. To some historians, the campaigns in Arizona and New Mexico were a minor sideshow. Yet, as Frazier illustrates, the stakes were enormous; in particular, a Confederate victory in this theater could have put all of the Pacific Coast at the Confederacy's disposal. Frazier has done an outstanding job of illuminating a relatively obscure aspect of the Civil War, and his work should appeal to both the history buff and those general readers who appreciate epic but futile adventures. <i>Jay Freeman</i>
zlib_text: ALAN C HUFFINES received his
  BA in History from Midwestern
  State University and took an MA
  in History at Norwich University
  in Vermont. He is an active duty
  field grade combat arms officer
  and received the Bronze Star
  Medal in the Persian Gulf War.
  He is the author of the acclaimed
  Blood ofNoble Men: The Alamo
  Siege and Battle, an Illustrated
  Chronology, and A Pilgrim Shadow
  as well as several articles on the
  Texas Revolution. He has
  provided historical consulting
  work on feature films and
  documentaries.
  PROFESSOR ROBERT O'NEILL,
  AO D.PHIL. (Oxon), Hon D.
  Litt.(ANU), FASSA, Fr Hist S,
  is the Series Editor of the Essential
  Histories. His wealth of knowledge
  and expertise shapes the series
  content and provides up-to-the-
  minute research and theory. Born
  in 1936 an Australian citizen, he
  served in the Australian Army
  (1955-68) and has held a number
  of eminent positions in history
  circles, including the Chichele
  Professorship of the History
  of War at All Souls College,
  University of Oxford