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245 10 a| Border odysseyh| [electronic resource] :b| travels along the U.S./Mexico divide /c| Charles D. Thompson, Jr.;

250 a| First edition.;

260 a| Austin :b| University of Texas Press,c| 2015.;

300 a| 318 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 24 cm;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-307) and index.;

505 0 a| 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.;

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Border odyssey travels along the U.S./Mexico divide / Charles D. Thompson, Jr.

Author/creator	Thompson, Charles D.
Format	Electronic
Edition	First edition.
Publication Info	Austin : University of Texas Press, 2015.
Description	318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects	Thompson, Charles D., Jr. (Charles Dillard), 1956---Travel. Mexican-American Border Region. United States--Foreign relations. --Mexico. Mexico--Foreign relations. --United States.

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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-307) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2014031549
ISBN	9780292756632 (cloth : alk. paper)

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