Title The devil's highway : a true story / Luis Alberto Urrea.

Publication Info.	New York : Little, Brown, [2004]
	©2004

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	JV6475 .U77 2004	Available	---

Edition	1st ed.
Description	xii, 239 pages ; 22 cm
Note	Includes index.
Contents	Cutting the drag: Rules of the game -- Dead man's sign: In Veracruz ; Coyote and the chicken ; El guía ; Jesús walks among us ; In Sonoita ; Pepsi for the apocalypse ; Bad step at bluebird ; Killed by the light -- In desolation: Long walk ; Their names ; Broken promise ; Trees and the sun ; Helicopters -- Aftermath: Aftermath ; Home.
Summary	Describes the attempt of twenty-six men to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, a region known as the Devil's Highway, detailing their harrowing ordeal and battle for survival against impossible odds. Only 12 men came back out. 2 maps.
Subject	Human smuggling -- Mexican-American Border Region.
	Human smuggling.
	Noncitizens -- Crimes against -- Mexican-American Border Region.
	Noncitizens -- Crimes against.
	Noncitizens.
	Mexican-American Border Region -- Social conditions.
	Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
	Mexico.
	Emigration and immigration.
	Social aspects.
	United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
	United States.
	Illegal immigration -- Mexican-American Border Region.
	Illegal immigration.
	Noncitizens.
	Undocumented Immigrants.
	Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
	Social conditions.
	North America -- Mexican-American Border Region.
Genre/Form	Creative nonfiction.
	Creative nonfiction.
ISBN	0316010804 (paperback)
	0316746711
	9780316010801 (paperback)
	9780316746717