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Madam Mayo
Marfa Mondays Podcasting Project: Exploring Marfa,Texas and Environs of Far West Texas
Description: Paul Cool writes about historical crime and disorder, the enforcement of law, and the search for justice in the American southwest. He is the author of Salt Warriors, a riveting history of the El Paso Salt War, and is currently writing The Girl in the Iron Box: Dedication and Failure in J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI, a history of the FBI’s search for the kidnappers of June Robles.
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Posted by Paul Cool on Dec 12, 2010
I’ve been writing about the history of the American Southwest for a dozen years, specifically efforts to secure law, order, and justice along the U.S.-Mexico borderlands during times of economic dislocation, political corruption, and criminal violence. My first book, Salt Warriors: Insurgency on the Rio Grande, relates how the corruption of law and politics and the legal theft of economic resources in El Paso led Tejano citizen soldiers to take up arms against Texas Rangers, Buffalo Soldiers, and a posse of
Posted by Paul Cool on May 22, 2012
Madam Mayo
Madam Mayo
Marfa Mondays Podcasting Project: Exploring Marfa,Texas and Environs of Far West Texas