Title: The Border? Where?
Product review: Where is that border anyway? "The Rio Grande had miles of tortuous curves filled with semi-tropical thickets choked with vines and cactus." (p. 149 The border was nothing but trouble. It's hostile. The border was established despite horrible difficulty. The center of the problem wasn't just the terrain but continual wars from the Mexican-American to the Civil War to wars with Native Americans (Geronomo!) then the war with Spain and the Mexican Revolution. It was horrible difficulty. The book presents all of it in detail. It is scholarly. It is complete. It is a masterpiece.
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