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Title: Remember Santiago by Douglas C. Jones ISBN: 0-8050-0776-8 Publisher: Henry Holt & Co Pub. Date: 01 September, 1988 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $19.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)

Rating: 4
Summary: More history and less western atmosphere than usual.
Comment: This book was certainly a change from most of the other Douglas C. Jones novels I've had the pleasure of reading. The author pays much less attention here to continuing his moving fictional history of Arkansas and the West than he does to revealing the sometimes farcical details of America's 1898 attack on Spanish-controlled Cuba. Even Theodore Roosevelt's famous assault on San Juan Hill, made heroic in newspaper accounts of the time, doesn't sound like such a big deal in Jones' careful recounting. (Seems that the future president didn't actually storm up San Juan Hill, but rather a hillock to one side of that prominence. Black soldiers captured San Juan Hill before the Rough Riders even arrived there.) The author's technique of telling his story through various eyes is generally successful, but he could have dropped the viewpoint of a timid Red Cross nurse in favor of more perspective from Joe Mountain, an Arkansas Osage who is every bit as imposing as his moniker implies. All in all, this novel gives readers a much more complete and interesting look at the Cuban end of the Spanish-American War than does, say, Elmore Leonard's newer but heavily romantic "Cuba Libre." However, I prefer the western atmosphere and characters of other Jones novels, especially "The Search for Temperance Moon" and "This Savage Race."