01748cam a2200265 4500 545744260 TxAuBib 071023s2008||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2007043789 9780875653648 0875653642 (OCoLC)180689976 DLC DLC YDX TxAuBib Metz, Leon Claire. Border : The U.S.-Mexico Line / Leon C. Metz. 2nd ed. Fort Worth, Tex. : TCU Press, 2008. 467 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. Originally published: El Paso, Tex. : Mangan Books, c1989. Includes bibliographical references (p. 443-458) and index. A commissioner falls -- A boundary too far north -- Seeing Inez home -- Where egos collide -- Bad roads and flags of contention -- Sell the land, or we will take it -- A complete line at last -- Teeth of iron -- Filibusters and slavers -- Blue and Gray at the border -- Cowhides and rangers -- Marauders, soldiers and salt -- The order of June 1 -- The struggle begins -- The first battle of Juarez -- The border in flames -- The punitive expedition -- Politics and peace -- To chain a river -- A call for partnership -- Salty river, thirsty land -- Great river, great problems -- A banco here, a banco there -- Dams for the river -- The upper river becomes a ditch -- The lower Rio Grande Valley -- The Kennedy give-away and other border oddities -- I lift my lamp -- The deportations -- The braceros -- A place to work -- The art of pulling together. United States Boundaries Mexico. Mexico Boundaries United States. Mexican-American Border Region History.