Border
Subtitle: the U.S.-Mexico line
By: Leon C. Metz.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: TCU Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Fort Worth, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 467
ISBN-13: 9780875653648
Subjects: United States -- Boundaries -- Mexico; Mexico -- Boundaries -- United States; Mexican-American Border Region -- History
Notes: Originally published: El Paso, Tex. : Mangan Books, c1989.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 443-458) and index.
Table of contents: title: A commissioner falls; title: A boundary too far north; title: Seeing Inez home; title: Where egos collide; title: Bad roads and flags of contention; title: Sell the land, or we will take it; title: A complete line at last; title: Teeth of iron; title: Filibusters and slavers; title: Blue and Gray at the border; title: Cowhides and rangers; title: Marauders, soldiers and salt; title: The order of June 1; title: The struggle begins; title: The first battle of Juarez; title: The border in flames; title: The punitive expedition; title: Politics and peace; title: To chain a river; title: A call for partnership; title: Salty river, thirsty land; title: Great river, great problems; title: A banco here, a banco there; title: Dams for the river; title: The upper river becomes a ditch; title: The lower Rio Grande Valley; title: The Kennedy give-away and other border oddities; title: I lift my lamp; title: The deportations; title: The braceros; title: A place to work; title: The art of pulling together.