02239cam a2200337 i 4500 323497168 TxGeo 20170911120000.0 140812s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2014031549 9780292756632 hbk. 0292756631 hbk. (OCoLC)889324115 TxGeo rda Thompson, Charles D., 1956-, (Charles Dillard.) Border odyssey : travels along the U.S./Mexico divide / Charles D. Thompson, Jr. First edition. Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2015. 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-307) and index. Evidence of things not seen -- The border etched in bones -- Traveling the Valley of the Shadow -- Two kinds of flight -- Of roads, fences, and neighbors -- Boca Chica sunset -- The ghosts of Palmito Ranch -- El ranchero -- Border guards -- Brownsville raids -- Rio Grande guardians -- Progress? -- World's most honest man -- Cowboy priests -- The hand-drawn ferry -- Prohibition bar -- Border walker -- The road to Eagle Pass -- Border ambassador -- The last stay at Del Rio -- Seminole Canyon -- Braceros in murder city -- Fort Davis and the Buffalo Soldiers -- National park on the line -- Pancho Villa and the Pink Store -- Smoke on the Apacheria -- A grandmother mourns at the wall -- Fences and neighbors -- Ground zero of the border crisis -- Altar and sacrifice -- Phoenix rising -- Tohono sacred peak and desert deaths -- Campesinos Sin Fronteras -- The wall of shame and entrepreneurship -- Graves of unknown farmworkers -- Desert view tower and the X-Men -- Walking alone through Friendship Park -- As if it were not there. 20170911. Thompson, Charles D., Jr (Charles Dillard), 1956- Travel. Mexican-American Border Region. United States Foreign relations Mexico. Mexico Foreign relations United States. QS5