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Border: The U.S.Mexico Line
Leon Metz
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Description for Border: The U.S.Mexico Line
Paperback. Chronicles the nearly two-thousand-mile international line between the United States and Mexico. This title presents an historical account largely through the eyes and experiences of government agents, politicians, soldiers, revolutionaries, outlaws, Indians, engineers, immigrants, developers, illegal aliens, and wayfarers looking for a job. Num Pages: 480 pages, maps, b&w photos, bib., index. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 667.
Fourteen years in the making, this is a chronicle of the nearly two-thousand-mile international line between the United States and Mexico. It is an historical account largely through the eyes and experiences of government agents, politicians, soldiers, revolutionaries, outlaws, Indians, engineers, immigrants, developers, illegal aliens, business people, and wayfarers looking for a job. It is essentially the untold story of lines drawn in water, sand, and blood, of an intrepid, durable people, of a civilization whose ebb and flow of history is as significant as any in the world.Award-winning historian Leon Metz takes the reader from America's early westward expansion ... Read more
Fourteen years in the making, this is a chronicle of the nearly two-thousand-mile international line between the United States and Mexico. It is an historical account largely through the eyes and experiences of government agents, politicians, soldiers, revolutionaries, outlaws, Indians, engineers, immigrants, developers, illegal aliens, business people, and wayfarers looking for a job. It is essentially the untold story of lines drawn in water, sand, and blood, of an intrepid, durable people, of a civilization whose ebb and flow of history is as significant as any in the world.Award-winning historian Leon Metz takes the reader from America's early westward expansion ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Texas Christian University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
Fort Worth, United States
ISBN
9780875653648
SKU
V9780875653648
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About Leon Metz
LEON C. METZ was born and educated in Parkersburg, West Virginia, and has resided in El Paso, Texas, since 1952. Past president of Western Writers of America, he was honored in 1985 with that organization's prestigious Saddleman Award for his overall contributions to western writing. Author of nine books and numerous articles in magazines, newspapers, and historical journals, Metz is ... Read more
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