Border odyssey : travels along the US/Mexico divide / Charles D. Thompson, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thompson, Charles D., Jr. (Charles Dillard), 1956- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thompson, Charles D., Jr. (Charles Dillard), 1956-.

Travel.

Mexican-American Border Region.

United States--Foreign relations--Mexico.

United States.

International relations.

Mexico.

Mexico--Foreign relations--United States.

Thompson, Charles D., Jr. (Charles Dillard), 1956---Travel.

Thompson, Charles D.

Physical Description:

318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2015.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780292756632

0292756631

OCLC:

889324115