San Antonio College Library

A history of the Mexican-American border region in the early 20th century profiles the violent and colorful figures during the period of the Mexican revolution, when bloody raids and conflicts broke out between Mexicans and American soldiers and frontiersman.

Present-day smuggling across the U.S.-Mexico border is a professional, often violent, criminal activity. However, it is only the latest chapter in a history of illicit business dealings that stretches back to 1848, when attempts by Mexico and the United States to tax commerce across the Rio Grande upset local trade and caused popular resentment. Rather than acquiesce to what they regarded as arbitrary trade regulations, borderlanders continued to...

The Texas-Mexico border is trouble. Haphazardly splashing across the meandering Rio Grande into Mexico is?or at least can be?risky business, hazardous to one?s health and well-being. Kirby W. Dendy, the Chief of Texas Rangers, corroborates the sobering reality: ?As their predecessors for over one hundred forty years before them did, today?s Texas Rangers continue to battle violence and transnational criminals along the Texas-Mexico border.? In Riding...

"In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Mexicans and Americans joined together to transform the U.S.-Mexico borderlands into a crossroads of modern economic development. This book reveals the forgotten story of their ambitious dreams and their ultimate failure to control this fugitive terrain." "Focusing on a mining region that spilled across the Arizona-Sonora border, Truett shows how entrepreneurs, corporations, and statesmen tried to...

Drawing on archives on both sides of the border, the author chronicles the political currents which created and then undermined the Mexican border as a relative safe haven for African Americans.

A chronicle of the two-thousand mile border line between the United States and Mexico, from Brownsville, Texas on the Gulf of Mexico to near San Diego on the Pacific Ocean.

"This study is a reinterpretation of nineteenth century Mexican American history that examines Mexico's struggle to secure its northern border with repatriates from the United States in the aftermath of a war resulting in the loss of half its territory. Responding to past interpretations, Jose Angel Hernández suggests that these resettlement schemes centered on the developments of the frontier region, the modernization of the country with loyal Mexican...

The focus of this book is the Expedition, the Villistas, and their leader Francisco Pancho Villa. Villa's early life witnessed the advent of the typewriter, the telephone, linotype, the automobile, the Kodak camera, the first motion pictures, wireless telegraphy, the airplane, and the radio. In the days before his defeat at Columbus and the subsequent routing of his bands by the Punitive Expedition, Villa had a coterie of journalists wherever he traveled,...

Thirteen essays on the U.S.-Mexico borderlands examine the cultural interplay between the two countries as representative of the interaction between Anglo and Hispanic America. They explore such topics as the evocation of the Southwest in the writings of Harvey Fergusson, Miguel Mendez, and Rudolfo Anaya; the role of the American writers John Dos Passos and Katherine Anne Porter in bringing contemporary Mexican painters to the attention of critics...