William BoothNick Miroff
The Mexican city of Nuevo Laredo, just across the border from Laredo marksthe start of the official sectionof the Pan-American Highway. From there it runs to Mexico City along Mexican Federal Highway 45 and on to the border with Guatemala along Mexican Federal Highway 190. It then proceeds...
“In Tonopah, Nevada, the victims of a ‘Death Harvest’ rest in the shadow of a haunted lodge.” Cheri Lucas Rowlands Cheri has been an editor at Longreads since 2014. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.More by Cheri Lucas Rowlands...
The experienced photographer or artist who finds an “S curve” embodied in his subject knows that he has struck compositional gold, and on southwestern New Mexico’s State Highway 152, he will discover a treasure trove of S curves. Relatively little known, Highway 152 begins at Interstate Hi...
artist's and craftsmen eager to make a home in the mountains of New Mexico.He remained dedicated to the town he'd grown up in and it's new community until his death in the late 1980's. Some of those who shared his vision of a new Madrid, more than 25 years ago are still here ...
Today, full-service gas stations have largely gone the way of drive-in movie theatres and travel agents: While they're not entirely gone, pumping your own gas is certainly a more common practice. The slow death of full-service gas stations began in 1947 when Los Angeles gas station operator...
The body of a 54-year-old woman missing since February has been found in a cemetery on the side of a highway in Mexico, police say. Reyna Henandez of Renton, Washington -- a suburb of Seattle approximately 12 miles south of downtown -- disappeared from her home on Feb. 26, according...
Big Bend National Park in Texas offers spectacular views of the Chihuahuan Desert landscape as well as the Rio Grande. Visitors to the park can even enter Mexico through the park's Boquillas Crossing Port of Entry. Big Bend has more species of birds, bats, and cacti than any other nationa...
U.S. Highway 83 runs north-south from the Mexico border to the border with Canada. More than 900 miles of US 83 stretch across Texas from Brownsville to Perryton. The longest highway in Texas, Highway 83 is known as the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial Highway. Because of its length, the...
southern Arizona sector who had not encountered death. All the agents seem to agree that the worst deaths are the young women and the children. The deaths, however, that fill the agents with the deepest rage are the deaths of illegals lured into the wasteland and then abandoned by their ...