"Doolittle has provided us with a very detailed description of the Valley of Sonora and for those of us interested in Northern Mexico he has pulled together a great deal of information and focused it on the issue of how the past is to be interpretated. This is an important issue."--Agricultural History

"The author's presentation is crisp and lucid throughout."--The Latin American Anthropology Review

"Overall, this book is an excellent and interesting study. Rarely are the insights of archaeology and ethnohistory so advantageously employed...