Chasing shadows
Subtitle: Indians along the United States-Mexico border, 1876-1911
By: Shelley Bowen Hatfield.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Indians of Mexico -- Government relations.; Indians of North America -- Government relations -- 1869-1934.; Apache Indians -- Wars.; Mexico -- Foreign relations -- United States.; United States -- Foreign relations -- Mexico.
Description: In both Mexico and the United States, economic development policies required building railroads, promoting commercial agriculture, and in general fostering efforts to ensure a modern, industrial nation emerged. Peace and order were basic to the success of these efforts, which meant that Indians who resisted any changes on their lands would be fought until they either surrendered or were exterminated.

Before the Indian campaigns had ended, Mexico and the United States expended millions of dollars and countless thousands died. This book relates military and political efforts on both sides of the United States-Mexico border to deal with native resistance to late nineteenth-century modernization initiatives.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-194) and index.
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of New Mexico, 1983) under title: Indians of the United States-Mexico border during the Porfiriato, 1876-1911.