Beatriz de la Garza

In telling the story of a long-ago crime and its tragic results, de la Garza sheds new light on the interethnic struggles that defined life on the U.S.-Mexico border a century ago.

Using family papers, local chronicles, and scholarly works, de la Garza tells the story of the Republic of the Rio Grande and its people from the perspective of individuals who lived in this region from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century.