BOOKS: Wild West Boyhood

MY LIFE ON THE FRONTIER—Miguel Antonio Otero—Press of the Pioneers ($6).

In New Mexico and the U. S. Southwest the name of Otero is a potent one. Once great landowners, holders in territorial days of one enormous ranch that extended from Pefia Blanca to El Paso, Tex., members of the Otero family have been judges, governors, railroad builders, bankers, billiard champions, sportsmen. During the era of Western expansion, they lived on a scale comparable to that of wealthy Southern planters before the Civil War. The first Don Miguel Antonio Otero was born...

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