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020			_a9780060883102
035			_a(AEA)6A5343BA482843D69279191645841500
050			_aHV 5805.F63 _b.C768 2005
100			_aFord, Don Henry, _d-1957 _9109786
245		0	_aContrabando : _bconfessions of a drug-smuggling Texas cowboy / _cby Don Henry Ford, Jr. ; with an introduction by Charles Bowden.
260			_aNew York : _bHarper, _cc2005.
300			_a233 p. _c20 cm.
520			_aDon 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"
650			_aDrug couriers _zTexas _9109787
650			_aDrug traffic _zMexican-American Border Region. _9109788
650			_aDrug traffic _zTexas. _9109789
650			_aMarijuana abuse _zTexas. _9109790
650			_aMarijuana industry _zMexican-American Border Region. _9109791
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