Author: R. A. LeMassena
Publisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Rio Grande ... to the Pacific!
Author: R. A. LeMassena
Publisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Rio Grande Glory Days
Author: Gilbert A. Lathrop
Publisher:
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Category : Narrow gauge railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Narrow gauge railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Border Contraband
Author: George T. Díaz
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292761066
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Winner, Jim Parish Award for Documentation and Publication of Local and Regional History, Webb County Heritage Foundation, 2015 Present-day smuggling across the U.S.-Mexico border is a professional, often violent, criminal activity. However, it is only the latest chapter in a history of illicit business dealings that stretches back to 1848, when attempts by Mexico and the United States to tax commerce across the Rio Grande upset local trade and caused popular resentment. Rather than acquiesce to what they regarded as arbitrary trade regulations, borderlanders continued to cross goods and accepted many forms of smuggling as just. In Border Contraband, George T. Díaz provides the first history of the common, yet little studied, practice of smuggling across the U.S.-Mexico border. In Part I, he examines the period between 1848 and 1910, when the United States' and Mexico's trade concerns focused on tariff collection and on borderlanders' attempts to avoid paying tariffs by smuggling. Part II begins with the onset of the Mexican Revolution in 1910, when national customs and other security forces on the border shifted their emphasis to the interdiction of prohibited items (particularly guns and drugs) that threatened the state. Díaz's pioneering research explains how greater restrictions have transformed smuggling from a low-level mundane activity, widely accepted and still routinely practiced, into a highly profitable professional criminal enterprise.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292761066
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Winner, Jim Parish Award for Documentation and Publication of Local and Regional History, Webb County Heritage Foundation, 2015 Present-day smuggling across the U.S.-Mexico border is a professional, often violent, criminal activity. However, it is only the latest chapter in a history of illicit business dealings that stretches back to 1848, when attempts by Mexico and the United States to tax commerce across the Rio Grande upset local trade and caused popular resentment. Rather than acquiesce to what they regarded as arbitrary trade regulations, borderlanders continued to cross goods and accepted many forms of smuggling as just. In Border Contraband, George T. Díaz provides the first history of the common, yet little studied, practice of smuggling across the U.S.-Mexico border. In Part I, he examines the period between 1848 and 1910, when the United States' and Mexico's trade concerns focused on tariff collection and on borderlanders' attempts to avoid paying tariffs by smuggling. Part II begins with the onset of the Mexican Revolution in 1910, when national customs and other security forces on the border shifted their emphasis to the interdiction of prohibited items (particularly guns and drugs) that threatened the state. Díaz's pioneering research explains how greater restrictions have transformed smuggling from a low-level mundane activity, widely accepted and still routinely practiced, into a highly profitable professional criminal enterprise.
Rio Grande
Author: Dale Sanders
Publisher: Motorbooks International
ISBN: 9780962869983
Category : Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Publisher: Motorbooks International
ISBN: 9780962869983
Category : Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Basins of the Rio Grande Rift: Structure, Stratigraphy, and Tectonic Setting
Author: G. Randy Keller
Publisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813722918
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Publisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813722918
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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The Army of the Pacific
Author: Aurora Hunt
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 9780811729789
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Tells the story of volunteer troops who served in the West during the Civil War. This work is part of the Frontier Military series.
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 9780811729789
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Tells the story of volunteer troops who served in the West during the Civil War. This work is part of the Frontier Military series.
The Official Railway Guide
Author:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1518
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1518
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The Official Railway Equipment Register
Author:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1576
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Publisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1576
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Along the Rio Grande (Love on the Santa Fe)
Author: Tracie Peterson
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 1493435965
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Is her compassion doing more harm than good? Recently widowed Susanna Jenkins has decided to follow her family to the booming town of San Marcial, New Mexico, for a fresh start and to aid in her family's sudden change in fortune. They are tasked with managing her uncle's new Grand Hotel, and it takes all her patience to try to help her parents see the good of their circumstances and relinquish their sense of entitlement. She's hopeful when her brother becomes determined to get a job and make his own way, and she feels drawn to his kind boss, Owen Turner, who works as a boilermaker for the Santa Fe's train shops in town. But the hard work only seems to fuel her brother's anger, and his rough new friends give her pause. When misguided choices put Susanna's family in an even more precarious situation, she worries her help has only made things worse. Leaving her family to fend for themselves seems like the best option, but how can she walk away from the true friendships--and love--that she's found?
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 1493435965
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Is her compassion doing more harm than good? Recently widowed Susanna Jenkins has decided to follow her family to the booming town of San Marcial, New Mexico, for a fresh start and to aid in her family's sudden change in fortune. They are tasked with managing her uncle's new Grand Hotel, and it takes all her patience to try to help her parents see the good of their circumstances and relinquish their sense of entitlement. She's hopeful when her brother becomes determined to get a job and make his own way, and she feels drawn to his kind boss, Owen Turner, who works as a boilermaker for the Santa Fe's train shops in town. But the hard work only seems to fuel her brother's anger, and his rough new friends give her pause. When misguided choices put Susanna's family in an even more precarious situation, she worries her help has only made things worse. Leaving her family to fend for themselves seems like the best option, but how can she walk away from the true friendships--and love--that she's found?
The Statist
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 1432
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 1432
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