Border odyssey
Subtitle: travels along the U.S./Mexico divide
By: Charles D. Thompson, Jr
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780292756632
Subjects: Travel; Foreign relations
Description: "Border Odyssey takes us on a drive toward understanding the U.S./Mexico divide: all 1,969 miles -- from Boca Chica to Tijuana -- pressing on with the useful fiction of a map...Along the journey, five centuries of cultural history (indigenous, French, Spanish, Mexican, African American, colonist, and U.S.), wars, and legislation unfold. And through observation, conversation, and meditation, Border Odyssey scopes the stories of the people and towns on both sides..." -- Book jacket .
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-307) and index.
Table of contents: title: Evidence of things not seen; title: The border etched in bones; title: Traveling the Valley of the Shadow; title: Two kinds of flight; title: Of roads, fences, and neighbors; title: Boca Chica sunset; title: The ghosts of Palmito Ranch; title: El ranchero; title: Border guards; title: Brownsville raids; title: Rio Grande guardians; title: Progress?; title: World's most honest man; title: Cowboy priests; title: The hand-drawn ferry; title: Prohibition bar; title: Border walker; title: The road to Eagle Pass; title: Border ambassador; title: The last stay at Del Rio; title: Seminole Canyon; title: Braceros in murder city; title: Fort Davis and the Buffalo Soldiers; title: National park on the line; title: Pancho Villa and the Pink Store; title: Smoke on the Apacheria; title: A grandmother mourns at the wall; title: Fences and neighbors; title: Ground zero of the border crisis; title: Altar and sacrifice; title: Phoenix rising; title: Tohono sacred peak and desert deaths; title: Campesinos Sin Fronteras; title: The wall of shame and entrepreneurship; title: Graves of unknown farmworkers; title: Desert view tower and the X-Men; title: Walking alone through Friendship Park; title: As if it were not there.