| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.3

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Schemers & Dreamers: Filibustering in Mexico, 1848–1921. By Joseph A. Stout, Jr. (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 2002. xvii + 148 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $27.95.)

For more than a century and a half, a porous border nearly two thousand miles long has separated the United States and Mexico. Many unauthorized crossings of this permeable barrier, composed of a shallow river and a fictional line in the desert, have transpired since the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo determined this boundary between the two North American countries. In the twentieth century, the most critical illicit migration has flowed northward as millions of Mexican citizens have desperately sought to better their lives by finding employment in the United States. Before 1900, however, the most important incursions proceeded southward as American citizens strove to seize additional territory from their southern neighbors. Those military expeditions into Mexico comprise the subject of this book.

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