This author and this book were truly amazing. One of the best books I've read. Being a Chicano myself and having grown up out west it was easy to visuallize the scenery and the characters due to the incredible descriptions of the author. He is truly a gifted writer. I am hooked on his style of writing and cannot wait till I can get my hands on his other two books and to learn all I can about this genious. Enjoy.

I read this book in high school and twice since then. I've always thought it would eventually be put into a movie. The telling of a story that so closely parallels the reality of my own experience makes for great reading. The author puts you into old Mexico and brings you to the U.S. and makes you feel every bit a part of our history through his vision.

I read it 20 years ago when I was a VISTA volunteer working with migrant farmworkers (i.e. chicanos). The story of 3 generations of a family in California 1910-1970. You'll think about the ending for a long long time. I have for 20 years. Why hasn't this been made into a film?

Great Cruelties Have Been Reported: The 1544 Investigation Of The Coronado Expedition by historian Richard Flint is a superbly presented, scholarly, detailed historical analysis of not just the Spanish Coronado Expedition into the New World, but also the official investigation by Spanish officials after the Coronado Expedition's two-year duration. Focusing on the primary sources of the extensive documents recording this official investigation, Great Cruelties Have Been Reported unflinchingly surveys and reports the clash between worlds and cultures, the Spanish conquistadors and the Native American peoples. Great Cruelties Have Been Reported is a solid, exhaustively researched, well reasoned, and smoothly written account which is strongly recommended for both academic and community library history collections.