TY - JOUR
AU - Manaster, Jane.
AB -  20ogBook Reviews451 One of die work's strengths stems from the author's use of primary materials. For example, Gentry utilized the Adjutant General's Papers, Erath County Court House documents, local newspapers, naturalization records, and oral interviews. The inclusion of these resources not only serves the reader's interest, but they also add to die author's credibility. The book is well written and thoroughly researched. While the work provides readers widi an excellent account of Thurber's vivid history, it also serves as a significant addition to the historiography of Texas communities during the late nineteendi and early twentiedi centuries. Any historian interested in Texas history, urban studies, and business history would find diis book a valuable resource. Tidewater Community College, Chesapeake, VirginiaKevin M. Brady Building the Borderlands: A Transnational History of Irrigated Cotton along the MexicoTexas Border, by Casey Walsh. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. Pp. 246. Illustrations, photographs, maps, charts, bibliography, index. ISBN: 9781603440134, $47.50 cloth.) For eighty years, from 1880 to i960, cotton was a preeminent crop along the stretch of the Rio Grande that separates Texas and Mexico. The crop's expansion was attributable to the advances in irrigation technology that developed along a singularly different pattern 
TI - Building the Borderlands: A Transnational History of Irrigated Cotton along the Mexico-Texas Border (review)
JF - Southwestern Historical Quarterly
DA - 2009-07-06
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/texas-state-historical-association/building-the-borderlands-a-transnational-history-of-irrigated-cotton-84yEs4axgu
SP - 451
EP - 452
VL - 112
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -