The River Has Never Divided Us : : A Border History of La Junta de los Rios /

The River Has Never Divided Us : : A Border History of La Junta de los Rios / / Jefferson Morgenthaler.

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 i...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Morgenthaler, Jefferson,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2004
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture
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Physical Description:1 online resource (355 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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