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Raymond Caballero has donated a significant collection to the PSU Library of classic and contemporary works covering Spanish and colonial history, Mexican demography and geography, the Mexican revolution, the exploration and the colonization of New Mexico as well as other topics about Latin American culture. The texts are written in both Spanish and English.

PSU's Humanities and Social Science librarian, Jennifer Dorner, considers the donation an extensive and invaluable addition to the PSU Library's collection and that it will signficantly improve the Library's holdings on the history, culture, and politics of Mexico, Latin America, and New Mexico. PSU students and faculty as well as the wider scholarly community will find Caballero's collection essential to meeting their academic and research needs.

Many of the titles will be added to the PSU Library's Special Collection. Here are a few of them:

John T. Hughes' Doniphan's Expedition Containing an Account of the Conquest of New Mexico, written in 1847 is a personal account of a soldier in the First Regiment of Missouri Mounted Volunteers. These soldiers marched from Fort Leavenworth down the Santa Fe Trail to invade Mexico.

A very rare, signed and inscribed, 1908 edition of La Teoriá del Tiro (The Theory of Artillery) written by General Felipe Angeles, who played an important role in the Mexican Revolution, is a part of Caballero's collection.

Bishop Pedro Tamarón y Romeral recounts visiting churches in his text, Demostracion del vastisimo obispado de la Nueva Vizcaya-1765; Durango, Sinaloa, Sonora, Arizona, Nuevo México, Chihuahua y Porciones de Texas, Coahuila y Zacatecas (1937).

Friedrich Schuler, professor of History at Portland State University, concurred with Jennifer Dorner that the PSU Library was fortunate to acquire the Caballero's collection:

I looked at the list and I would categorize it as outstanding. Most of the texts are good scholarly works that are still top of the line yet out of print. Mexico is the future and many of the texts deal with the Mexican American border culture. The older texts are bibliographic gems.

For more information about Caballero's collection, please contact Jennifer Dorner at dorner@pdx.edu