"Lively, vivid, and intensely personal, Horizontal Yellow fills a gap in American environmental historiography, which has largely bypassed the plains of Texas and New Mexico. Horizontal Yellow is one of the best and most evocative books in the burgeoning literature about place. . . . it succeeds and raises questions as a first-rate contribution to the literature of place, and few know the region as well as Flores. . ."—New Mexico Historical Review
"No one makes history come alive better than Dan Flores. . . . Horizontal Yellow, both scholarly and readable, has a powerful component."—ISLE, Journal of Environmental Literature
". . . beautifully-written in creative lyrical language . . . His is a story-telling technique that is enjoyable and easy-to-read."—The Chronicles of Oklahoma