Old Southwest

 Salvete Omnes,

 

Dog days of the summer - let us canter back to the olden days of Mexico fresh from the French-Maximilian empire vs Republic war and Porfilio Diaz ascendancy, to the early American Southwest via this book by William Henry Bishop.
This travel book was published in New York in 1883.

And some period imagery 

beauty of San Xavier del Bac 

 

Tombstone muscle and law

Valete