In this sense it seems to me that colonial Texas as Barr has revealed it, while often an extreme case of asymmetrical indigenous power, still has more in common with other borderlands than the author allows. This is for the good, because this book should be read by anyone interested in colonial borderlands—both because of its exquisite portrait of a complex region, and because it exemplifies what scholars of other places, in North America and beyond, might accomplish by paying more attention to gendered “practices of
