Border: The U.S.-Mexico Line

El Paso, Texas: Mangan Books, 1989. Third Printing 1991 . Hard Back. Fine/Very Good. 6" x 9. 467 Pages Indexed. Author signature only on the half-title page. Frontispiece maps of the border. This is the untold story of lines drawn in water, sand and blood; of intrepid durable people on both sides of the United States-Mexico line; of ivilizations whose tides of history are as significant as any in the world. By the middle of the nineteenth century the United States accomplished a feat that altered the world's future. The fledgling nation leapfrogged a continent, doubled its territory, looked across two oceans, and established a border with Mexico so far south and west as to be almost unbelievable. Fourteen years in the making, This book chronicles the two-thousand mile line between the U.S. and Mexico - from Brownsville, Texas on the Gulf of Mexico to near San Diego on the Pacific Ocean. Award-winning historian Leon Metz takes the reader from America's early westward expansion to today's awesome border problems of water rights, pollution, immigration, illegal aliens, and the massive effort of two nations attempting to pull together for a common cause. This is a book that is a major contribution in the recording of an era - sometimes calm, sometimes turbulent, and at all times fascinating.