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On the Border

Portraits of America's Southwestern Frontier

Tom Miller
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Pages
215
Year
2016
Language
English
Publisher
Open Road Distribution

About

Tom Miller's On the Border frames the land between the United States and Mexico as a Third Country, one 2,000 miles long and twenty miles wide. This Third Country has its own laws and its own outlaws. Its music, language, and food are unique. Among his stops is Rosa's Cantina in El Paso, the Arizona site where a rancher sadistically tortured three Mexican campesinos, and the 100,000-watt XERF radio station where Wolfman Jack broadcasts nightly. He interviews children in both countries, all of whom insist that the candy on the other side is superior. On the Border, translated into Spanish, French, and Japanese, was the first book to identify and describe this land as a Third Country.

Related Subjects

  • Immigration & Emigration
  • Social Science
  • Adult Nonfiction
  • Hispanic & Latino Studies
  • Cultural & Ethnic Studies
  • Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
  • State & Local
  • United States (History)
  • History
  • West South Central (AR, LA, OK, TX)
  • South
  • United States (Travel)
  • Travel

Reviews

"[Miller] knows this country...feels its joys and sorrows, hears its music and loves its soul."
Newsday
"Unforgettable to every reader lucky enough to discover this gem of southwestern Americana."
San Diego Union-Tribune
"Mr. Miller has drawn a lively sketch of this unruly, unpredictable place."
Dallas Times Herald

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