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Recorder Of The Border
After spending seven years immersed in directing What We Leave Behind, an award-winning documentary about her grandfather’s home in Durango in Mexico, El Paso-born filmmaker Iliana Sosa told herself her next film would not be so personal. She intende
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The Devils River
The Devils River got its name from early settlers, who said the 93-mile waterway—and the treacherous terrain surrounding it near the U.S.-Mexico border—was created by Lucifer. The river runs between the present-day cities of Sonora and Del Rio, a sli
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Seat With a View 1976
The air is rare at the top of Big Bend National Park, an 800,000-acre expanse of towering mesas and deep river canyons on the U.S.-Mexico border. This Texas Highways archival photograph by Jack Lewis shows a pair of Austinites enjoying one of Big Ben

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