Fugitive Landscapes: The Forgotten History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (The Lamar Series in Western History)

Fugitive Landscapes: Transforming the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Discover the untold story of how ordinary people shaped transnational history on their own terms in this groundbreaking book! Focusing on a mining region that spilled across the Arizona-Sonora border, Fugitive Landscapes reveals the ambitious dreams and ultimate failure to control this fugitive terrain.

Learn how entrepreneurs, corporations, and statesmen tried to domesticate nature and society within a transnational context, but were stymied by labor struggles, social conflict, and revolution.

This book offers new lessons for our own border-crossing age and is a must-read for anyone interested in the complex history of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.