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Rio Grande River
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  • Beyond the Rio Puerco, to the southeast, he could see the blue mountains east of the Rio Grande, where the rich valley was full of their cities.†   (source)
  • It sticks its big old Panhandle up north and it slops and slouches along the Rio Grande.†   (source)
  • Sometimes Enrique strips and wades into the Rio Grande to cool off.†   (source)
  • Bast, does the Rio Grande have crocodiles?†   (source)
  • THE MOMENT He considers crossing the Rio Grande by himself.†   (source)
  • The man takes him to an encampment along the Rio Grande.†   (source)
  • Lourdes is convinced he was killed in Mexico or drowned in the Rio Grande.†   (source)
  • That night, as the sun sets, Enrique stares across the Rio Grande and gazes at the United States.†   (source)
  • Enrique swings the spark plugs around his head, then casts toward the middle of the Rio Grande.†   (source)
  • Across the Rio Grande on Mother's Day, his mother, Lourdes, thinks about Enrique.†   (source)
  • Lourdes Izaguirre, Gabi's aunt, arrives at the Rio Grande exhausted, worried, and crying.†   (source)
  • Central Americans emerge from the Rio Grande in Texas after wading across.†   (source)
  • Across the Rio Grande stands a fifty-foot pole equipped with U.S. Border Patrol cameras.†   (source)
  • Eventually, Lourdes concludes that he has died in Mexico or drowned in the Rio Grande.†   (source)
  • She watches TV: migrants drowning in the Rio Grande, dying in the desert, ranchers who shoot them.†   (source)
  • He reached the Rio Grande and actually saw the United States.†   (source)
  • As he nears the Rio Grande, he stops to eat.†   (source)
  • He and the three migrants hurry along the edge of the Rio Grande to a tributary called Zacate Creek.†   (source)
  • As he crosses the long bridge over the Rio Grande, he begins to pray.†   (source)
  • The last time I'd waded into a river—the Rio Grande in El Paso—it hadn't gone so well.†   (source)
  • It would take four hours to reach Reynosa, Mexico on the southern banks of the Rio Grande.†   (source)
  • He had not planned to ask, but at mention of the Rio Grande he felt a sudden homesickness.†   (source)
  • One day he saw a get-rich flyer touting the Rio Grande Valley.†   (source)
  • Every morning it is rush hour on the international bridge across the Rio Grande from Neuvo Laredo.†   (source)
  • The team crosses the Rio Grande on foot (above and below).†   (source)
  • It's the Rio Grande Valley at the bottom of Texas, the far eastern end.†   (source)
  • "It's in south Texas, on the Rio Grande.†   (source)
  • He took long walks in the swampy fields near the Rio Grande, the mosquito-laden fields.†   (source)
  • Some of the skinny cattle spent their lives being chased back and forth across the Rio Grande.†   (source)
  • Two hours earlier, they had crossed the Rio Grande at Laredo, Texas.†   (source)
  • " "It comes out of the same mountains as the Rio Grande," Call said.†   (source)
  • " "He claimed to have been all the way from the Columbia to the Rio Grande," Call said.†   (source)
  • Newt had once seen a Mexican girl who had pulled up her skirt to wade in the Rio Grande.†   (source)
  • To the south, past miles and miles of desert, steam rose from the Rio Grande—the battle site where Bast and Sobek had perished.†   (source)
  • Then a green explosion lit the entire length of the Rio Grande, and a small black-and-gold creature shot out of the river as if it had been tossed.†   (source)
  • The river marks the Guatemalan border, just as the Rio Grande defines the Mexican border to the north.†   (source)
  • Then he should take a bus to Matehuala, and he might be able to get a ride on a truck all the way to Nuevo Laredo on the Rio Grande.†   (source)
  • Twice a week at dusk, Padre Leo grabs a large black duffel bag and pedals his bike over a bridge that spans the Rio Grande into Laredo, Texas.†   (source)
  • To the north, in Nuevo Laredo, along the Rio Grande where Enrique camped, a battle for control of the border rages among rival Mexican drug cartels.†   (source)
  • Maraa Isabel has a setback one morning before dawn as she is swimming across the Rio Grande into Texas.†   (source)
  • They are agents for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service based in Cotulla, halfway along a seven- to eight-day walk between the Rio Grande at Nuevo Laredo and San Antonio.†   (source)
  • Los Osos, once a group of neighborhood children who played along the river, became a band of forty men who move drugs and people across the Rio Grande.†   (source)
  • He comes back before crossing the Rio Grande and tells Enrique about riding on trains, leaping off rolling freight cars, and dodging la migra, Mexican immigration agents.†   (source)
  • All night, since Enrique's last call from a pay phone across the Rio Grande, she has been having visions of him dead, floating on the river, his body wet and swollen.†   (source)
  • Each September, he leads a silent procession of people who place a cross on a fence overlooking the Rio Grande, one for each migrant who has recently died trying to cross into the United States.†   (source)
  • Leonicio Alejandro Hernandez, thirty-three, says that four municipal officers approached him on the banks of the Rio Grande and said, "We charge a thousand pesos [$100] to cross this river."†   (source)
  • Farther north, human rights activist Raymundo Ramos Vasquez gave me a tour of the most isolated spots along the Rio Grande, places where migrants cross.†   (source)
  • A DARK RIVER, PERHAPS A NEW LIFE Enrique's 1 A.M. departure is drawn from interviews with Enrique and migrant Hernan Bonilla, who witnessed the departure, as well as my subsequent observation of the staging area on the south bank of the Rio Grande and my observation of other nighttime crossings and pursuits by the U.S. Border Patrol.†   (source)
  • El Cenizo's main street runs past shabby trailer homes planted in neglected lots down to the Rio Grande.†   (source)
  • On the other side of the Rio Grande is Mexico, and the Mexican influence was evident throughout the Valley.†   (source)
  • Cesar turned to Lucky and said, "Imagine, a group of Mexicans just crossed the Rio Grande without getting their feet wet!"†   (source)
  • Not only did they need to find boys who wanted to play, they also needed to find ones whose parents would let them travel hundreds of miles to the other side of the Rio Grande.†   (source)
  • Harlon Block was born on a farm there, outside of McAllen, down near the knife-blade tip of Texas where the Rio Grande empties into the Gulf of Mexico.†   (source)
  • Four weeks ago they crossed the Rio Grande with their underwear in paper bags and a few days ago they're at the White House, shaking hands with the most powerful man in the world," stated Jose.†   (source)
  • At San Antonio, Ira would have looked for lifts heading due south: toward the knife-blade tip of Texas where the Rio Grande empties into the Gulf of Mexico.†   (source)
  • In one swing, the boy who had stepped on broken glass and had limped with a bleeding foot across the Rio Grande had tied the game and prolonged the season-at least for one more inning.†   (source)
  • The All-State pass-catcher, the boy who'd ridden along the banks of the Rio Grande on his white horse, stood there a moment, his hands filled with a heavy redness.†   (source)
  • The Rio Grande was shallow and warm, and no trouble to cross, whereas the farther north they went, the colder and swifter the rivers became.†   (source)
  • Toward the Rio Grande Valley.†   (source)
  • It was puzzling that such a muddy little river like the Rio Grande should make such a difference in terms of what was lawful and what not.†   (source)
  • He had been back and forth across the Rio Grande for so many years that it made him sad to think he might never see it again.†   (source)
  • E. F. Block," and using Ed's address in the Rio Grande Valley: In studying the picture of the famous flagraising on the peak of Suribachi I was convinced that the Marine at the base was my son, and began writing to several Marines that I was acquainted with to inquire if my son was the one in the picture and have received assurance from them that it was, but could not get definite proof until I got in touch with Ira Hamilton Hayes one of the survivors of the flagraising and received a…†   (source)
  • They were all but whipped, hardly enough warriors left free to terrorize the upper Brazos, much less the Rio Grande.†   (source)
  • Still, every evening, he took the broken crowbar and beat the bell--the sound rang through the town and across the Rio Grande.†   (source)
  • It had been a real turd-floater, and also a lumber-floater, washing much of the roof straight into the Rio Grande.†   (source)
  • It was there when the Rio Grande was just a river, not a boundary; the vaqueros would cross that river as casually as they crossed any stream.†   (source)
  • He followed the Rio Grande past Albuquerque and El Paso through the Big Bend, through Laredo to Brownsville.†   (source)
  • The rich citrus orchards of the Rio Grande valley do not relate to the sagebrush grazing of South Texas.†   (source)
  • But my mother and my gods are in the West, and I will never cross the Rio Grande.†   (source)
  • Moreover, the Bosque Redondo was down on the Pecos, far east of the Rio Grande.†   (source)
  • At about four o'clock they came out upon a ridge high over the Rio Grande valley.†   (source)
  • He had been warned that there were many trails leading off the Rio Grande road, and that a stranger might easily mistake his way.†   (source)
  • I argued back to myself that it was just the Rio Grande I had to cross, not the Acheron, but anyway it oppressed me from somewhere.†   (source)
  • His friends advised Father Latour to go down the river to New Orleans, thence by boat to Galveston, across Texas to San Antonio, and to wind up into New Mexico along the Rio Grande valley.†   (source)
  • The first night of their journey they had spent at Santa Cruz, lying in the warm, wide valley of the Rio Grande, where the fields and gardens were already softly coloured with early spring.†   (source)
  • It was a large and prosperous pueblo, set among clean sand-hills, with its rich irrigated farm lands lying just below, in the valley of the Rio Grande.†   (source)
  • His grape cuttings were brought from Sonora in baskets on muleback, and he would go all the way to the Villa (Santa Fé) for choice garden seeds, at the season when pack trains came up the Rio Grande valley.†   (source)
  • Manuelito drew a map in the sand, and explained to the Bishop how, from the very beginning, it had been enjoined that his people must never cross the Rio Grande on the east, or the Rio San Juan on the north, or the Rio Colorado on the west; if they did, the tribe would perish.†   (source)
  • Now, when he was an old man and ill, scenes from those bygone times, dark and bright, flashed back to the Bishop: the terrible faces of the Navajos waiting at the place on the Rio Grande where they were being ferried across into exile; the long streams of survivors going back to their own country, driving their scanty flocks, carrying their old men and their children.†   (source)
  • There's already been holdups on the railroads an' raids along the Rio Grande Valley.†   (source)
  • They make threats about joinin' the gangs along the Rio Grande.†   (source)
  • She remembered what Stillwell had told her about recent outlaw raids along the Rio Grande.†   (source)
  • It's my idea to start way up the Rio Grande and begin with Cheseldine.†   (source)
  • There will always be outlaws along the Rio Grande.†   (source)
  • But I want Jennie to get farther away from the Rio Grande.†   (source)
  • The Rio Grande rolled away between high bluffs.†   (source)
  • It was vague as his knowledge of that great waste of mesquite and rock bordering the Rio Grande.†   (source)
  • It was with regret that she saw the last of the valley of the Rio Grande, and then of its paralleled mountain ranges.†   (source)
  • It was Jones's contention that the value and number of American buffalo were unknown to the world--that the millions that had ranged the Great Plains from Manitoba to the Rio Grande were so common as to be no more appreciated than prairie-dogs.†   (source)
  • It may seem strange to you that out of all the stories I heard on the Rio Grande I should choose as first that of Buck Duane—outlaw and gunman.†   (source)
  • Run clear across the Rio Grande!†   (source)
  • The valley of the Rio Grande opened to view, wide near at hand in a great gray-green gap between the bare black mountains, narrow in the distance, where the yellow river wound away, glistening under a hot sun.†   (source)
  • Thereafter the old cattleman sent for El Paso and Douglas newspapers, wrote to ranchmen he knew on the big bend of the Rio Grande, and he would talk indefinitely to any one who would listen to him.†   (source)
  • Pilchuck's first organizing of buffalo-hunters into a unit to fight Comanches drove the wedge that split the Indians; and likewise it inspired and roused the hide-hunters from the Territory line to the Rio Grande.†   (source)
  • The Rio Grande and its tributaries for the most of their length in Texas ran between wide, low, flat lands covered by a dense growth of willow.†   (source)
  • Another night ride would put them beyond fear of pursuit, within striking distance of the Rio Grande and the hiding-places of the outlaws.†   (source)
  • The Rio Grande flowed almost due south along the western boundary for a thousand miles, and then, weary of its course, turned abruptly north, to make what was called the Big Bend.†   (source)
  • West of the Pecos River Texas extended a vast wild region, barren in the north where the Llano Estacado spread its shifting sands, fertile in the south along the Rio Grande.†   (source)
  • Then he held her, close pressed to him, while with dim eyes he looked out over the line of low hills in the west, down where the sun was setting gold and red, down over the Nueces and the wild brakes of the Rio Grande which he was never to see again.†   (source)
  • …it at random in these songs, become a part of that, whatever it is, Southward there, I screaming, with wings slow flapping, with the myriads of gulls wintering along the coasts of Florida, Otherways there atwixt the banks of the Arkansaw, the Rio Grande, the Nueces, the Brazos, the Tombigbee, the Red River, the Saskatchawan or the Osage, I with the spring waters laughing and skipping and running, Northward, on the sands, on some shallow bay of Paumanok, I with parties of snowy herons…†   (source)
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