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The devil's highway : a true story
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Describes the attempt of twenty-six men to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, a region known as the Devil's Highway, detailing their harrowing ordeal and battle for survi...
Describes the attempt of twenty-six men to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, a region known as the Devil's Highway, detailing their harrowing ordeal and battle for survival against impossible odds. Only 12 men came back out.
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- Creator
- Louis Alberto Urrea
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- Publication
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- New York, NY : Back Bay Books, [2014]
- ©2014
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 255 pages, 24 pages : maps ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780316010801, 0316010804, 9780316746717, 0316746711
- OCLC
- ocn880198386
- "Originally published in hardcover by Little, Brown and Company, April 2004." -- Title page verso.
- Includes index.
- Cutting the drag: Rules of the game -- Dead man's sign: In Veracruz ; Coyote and the chicken ; El guía ; Jesús walks among us ; In Sonoita ; A Pepsi for the apocalypse ; Bad step at bluebird ; Killed by the light -- In desolation: The long walk ; Their names ; Broken promise ; The trees and the sun ; Helicopters -- Aftermath: Aftermath ; Home
Subjects
- Human smuggling -- Mexican-American Border Region.
- Noncitizens -- Crimes against -- Mexican-American Border Region.
- Illegal immigration -- Mexican-American Border Region.
- United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
- Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
- Mexican-American Border Region -- Social conditions.