The Borderland Princess - Consort to Criminals, Revolutionaries Mercenaries, and Patriots
A documentary history built upon thousands of original letters, newspapers, business records, photographs, memoirs, oral histories, and archival documents.
About This Book
Far more than the history of a famous hotel, The Borderland Princess chronicles the remarkable rise of El Paso, Texas, from a frontier outpost into one of the most influential cities of the American Southwest. Through the story of the historic Sheldon Hotel, the book traces the people, events, and relationships that shaped the U.S.–Mexico Borderlands during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As one of the American Southwest's great crossroads of politics, commerce, diplomacy, military affairs, and revolution, the Sheldon Hotel stood at the center of the extraordinary events that transformed the region.
Consort to Criminals, Revolutionaries, Mercenaries, and Patriots
Drawing upon thousands of original newspapers, letters, government records, memoirs, oral histories, photographs, and archival documents collected over nearly a decade of research, The Borderland Princess presents the extraordinary history of El Paso and the Southwest through the people whose lives intersected at the legendary Sheldon Hotel.
Readers encounter presidents William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Porfirio Díaz, Francisco Madero, Pancho Villa, General John J. Pershing, Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, John Selman, Albert Fall, Texas Rangers, financiers, industrialists, journalists, revolutionaries, lawmen, and countless others whose stories became intertwined with the history of the Borderlands.
Illustrated with historical photographs, maps, newspapers, and archival material, the volume reveals how the Sheldon Hotel became one of the Southwest's great crossroads of politics, commerce, journalism, military affairs, diplomacy, and international intrigue.
Rather than interpreting history through the lens of modern hindsight, The Borderland Princess allows readers to experience these remarkable events through the voices, records, and contemporary accounts of those who witnessed them firsthand.
Historical Highlights
Recommended for readers of Borderlands history, the Mexican Revolution, Western history, military history, and primary-source documentary research.
Book Details
Length: 501 pages
Genre: Documentary History • Borderlands History • El Paso History • Mexican Revolution • American West
ISBN: 978-0-9904161-3-5