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Border odyssey : travels along the US/Mexico divide /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thompson, Charles D., Jr. (Charles Dillard), 1956- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2015]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Mexican-American Border Region.
United States > Foreign relations > Mexico.
Mexico > Foreign relations > United States.
Thompson, Charles D., > Jr. > (Charles Dillard), > 1956- > Travel.
Table of Contents:
  • Evidence of things not seen
  • The border etched in bones
  • Traveling the Valley of the Shadow
  • Two kinds of flight
  • Of roads, fences, and neighbors
  • Boca Chica sunset
  • The ghosts of Palmito Ranch
  • El ranchero
  • Border guards
  • Brownsville raids
  • Rio Grande guardians
  • Progress?
  • World's most honest man
  • Cowboy priests
  • The hand-drawn ferry
  • Prohibition bar
  • Border walker
  • The road to Eagle Pass
  • Border ambassador
  • The last stay at Del Rio
  • Seminole Canyon
  • Braceros in murder city
  • Fort Davis and the Buffalo Soldiers
  • National park on the line
  • Pancho Villa and the Pink Store
  • Smoke on the Apacheria
  • A grandmother mourns at the wall
  • Fences and neighbors
  • Ground zero of the border crisis
  • Altar and sacrifice
  • Phoenix rising
  • Tohono sacred peak and desert deaths
  • Campesinos Sin Fronteras
  • The wall of shame and entrepreneurship
  • Graves of unknown farmworkers
  • Desert view tower and the X-Men
  • Walking alone through Friendship Park
  • As if it were not there.