Border Contraband: A History of Smuggling Across the Rio Grande

by George T. Díaz

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477310134
• ISBN13: 9781477310137
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"