TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ford, Don Henry,
TI  - Contrabando: confessions of a drug-smuggling Texas cowboy 
SN  - 9780060883102
AV  - HV 5805.F63 .C768 2005
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New York
PB  - Harper
KW  - Drug couriers
KW  - Texas
KW  - Drug traffic
KW  - Mexican-American Border Region
KW  - Marijuana abuse
KW  - Marijuana industry
N2  - Don Henry Ford, Jr., is an unapologetic outlaw. For seven years he made his living smuggling marijuana across the U.S.-Mexico border in the Big Bend region of Texas. His business partners were some of the era's biggest narcotraficantes like Pablo Acosta and Amado Carrillo Fuentes. After Ford was arrested and imprisoned, he escaped and lived for a year in rural Mexico, raising a bumper crop of weed and hiding out from the federales , before his recapture and return to the penitentiary. Contrabando is the extraordinary, unabashed memoir of a rebel -- a warrior on the other side of the War on Drugs who lived to tell the tale. But more than a riveting and remarkable true crime confession, Contrabando is an ode to the beauty of the dry, dusty West Texas plains and the lonely hills of Mexico -- and a tribute to Ford's friends, protectors, and fellow outlaws who stood by him during the dangerous smuggling years."www.shelfari.com"
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