Winner of the 2010 Spur Award for most sensible modern Nonfiction from Western Writers of America

The Mexican Revolution couldn't have succeeded with no using American territory as a mystery base of operations, a resource of munitions, cash, and volunteers, a shelter for team of workers, an area for propaganda, and a marketplace for innovative loot. El Paso, the biggest and most vital American urban at the Mexican border in this time, used to be the scene of many clandestine operations as American companies and the U.S. federal govt sought to keep up their affects in Mexico and guard nationwide curiosity whereas maintaining a tally of key progressive figures. additionally, the town served as safe haven to a solid of characters that incorporated revolutionists, adventurers, smugglers, gunrunners, counterfeiters, propagandists, mystery brokers, double brokers, criminals, and self assurance men.

Using 80,000 pages of formerly categorised FBI files at the Mexican Revolution and hundreds of thousands of Mexican undercover agent studies from El Paso and Ciudad Juarez within the Mexican Ministry of international kin archive, Charles Harris and Louis Sadler study the mechanics of uprising in a city the place factional loyalty was once fragile and treachery was once increased to an artwork shape. As a case research, this slice of El Paso's, and America's, historical past provides new dimensions to what's identified in regards to the Mexican Revolution.

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
Louis R. Sadler is emeritus historical past professor at New Mexico nation University.
Charles H. Harris III is emeritus background professor at New Mexico country college, Las Cruces.

ACCLAIM
"This well-researched, deftly written quantity enriches knowing of the complexity of the Mexican Revolution and the function that the U.S. performed within the clash. hugely recommended." --Choice

"...a fine piece of scholarship." --Montana the journal of Western History

"The mystery struggle in El Paso is a fast moving, entertainingly written selection of derring-do stories dependent totally on brokers' experiences. it's also a major scholarly narrative and may be of curiosity to either a common reader of army historical past and Mexican Revolution specialists." --Military background of the West

". . . students of the Mexican Revolution, border quarter, Texas, and El Paso will revenue significantly from this book." --Hispanic American ancient Review

"...an valuable contribution to our realizing of the clandestine palms exchange, revolutionaries' limits, and the importance of El Paso to the Mexican Revolution. Harris and Sadler supply professional wisdom whereas adeptly spinning anecdotes and demanding myths. teachers will locate new and fascinating components of the border, whereas much less really good readers should be pulled alongside by means of the interesting characters and their frequently nefarious misadventures." --New Mexico old Review

"Harris and Sadler have tested their excessive measure of scholarship with this mystery conflict, carrying on with the culture in their earlier works." --Wild West historical past Journal

"The authors are the 1st historians to use the large (80,000 pages) archive at the Mexican Revolution accumulated by means of the FBI (then referred to as the Bureau of Investigation), declassified in 1977. Professors Harris and Sadler have made solid use of this archive and a number of different assets in generating this amazing history." --Roundup Magazine

"Filled with intrigue and a forged of characters that might thrill any motion picture maker." --Standard instances, San Angelo, TX

"Reads like an exciting novel. . . ." --Las Cruces Sun-News

"Harris and Sadler have given us an outstanding paintings of scholarship that sheds gentle on our figuring out of Mexico and may please any background junkie." --The net evaluate of Books