The river has never divided us [[electronic resource] ] : a border history of La Junta de Los Rios / / Jefferson Morgenthaler

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910777692903321
• Autore: Morgenthaler George J
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2004
• ISBN: 0-292-79756-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (356 p.)
• Collana: Jack and Doris Smothers series in Texas history, life, and culture ; ; no. 13
• Disciplina: 972/.16
• Soggetti: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General; La Junta de los Ríos (Tex.) History; La Junta de los Ríos (Tex.) Social conditions; La Junta de los Ríos (Tex.) Biography; Mexican-American Border Region History; United States Relations Mexico; Mexico Relations United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Forgotten -- Junie -- The Land -- La Junta -- Before 1830 -- The Promised Land -- Anglos Arrive -- In Doniphan’s Wake -- Jack Hays Gets Lost -- Whiting Draws the Line -- Forty-Niners -- Scalp Hunting Redux -- A Sudden Death -- The End of Isolation -- Railroads and Ranches -- The Armies -- Skillman’s Raiders -- The Rise and Fall of John Burgess -- The End of the Mescaleros -- Victor Ochoa -- Toribio Ortega’s Rebellion -- Orozco and Huerta -- Pancho Villa -- Punitive Expeditions -- The Spencers -- Pablo Acosta -- Rick Thompson -- River and Border -- Gilbert Spencer -- An Afternoon with Enrique -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Not quite the United States and not quite Mexico, La Junta de los Rios straddles the border between Texas and Chihuahua, occupying the basin formed by the conjunction of the Rio Grande and the Rio Conchos. It is one of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements in the Chihuahuan Desert, ranking in age and dignity with the Anasazi ; pueblos of New Mexico. In the first comprehensive history of the region, Jefferson Morgenthaler traces the history of La Junta de los Rios from the formation of the Mexico-Texas border in the mid-19th century to the 1997 ambush shooting of teenage goatherd Esquiel Hernandez by U.S. Marines performing drug interdiction in El Polvo, Texas. "Though it is scores of miles from a major highway, I found natives, soldiers, rebels, bandidos, heroes, scoundrels, drug lords, scalp hunters, medal winners, and mystics," writes Morgenthaler. "I found love, tragedy, struggle, and stories that have never been told." In telling the turbulent history of this remote valley oasis, he examines the consequences of a national border running through a community older than the invisible line that divides it.