Samuel Truett
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Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
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Language
English
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"In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Mexicans and Americans joined together to transform the U.S.-Mexico borderlands into a crossroads of modern economic development. This book reveals the forgotten story of their ambitious dreams and their ultimate failure to control this fugitive terrain." "Focusing on a mining region that spilled across the Arizona-Sonora border, Truett shows how entrepreneurs, corporations, and statesmen tried to...