Rousing Tales From the Line City, Book One

By Jose Ramon Garcia

The first book in the Line City Series is about the business lives of Wirt G. Bowman (1874-1949) and Abelardo L. Rodr?guez (1889-1967), two notable men from the Line City (Nogales, Arizona) who went very far in their pursuit of wealth. Mr. Bowman would do it as an astute capitalist who knew where to put his money-- most of it in Mexico-- despite the risk. General Rodr?guez would do it as military governor of the northern district of Baja California and, later, as substitute president of Mexico. Both of them would join forces in early 1927 and would push forward a bold, risky, income-generating venture that would become the world-renowned Agua Caliente Hotel and Casino in Tijuana, BC, Mexico. The curious reader will learn what Mr. Bowman himself had to say about the early days when the Agua Caliente pleasure palace was beginning to take shape. He actually wrote a ten-page memorandum addressed to President Rodr?guez in November 1933 about his ongoing conflict with Baron Long, who was then running the place, in where he included a short history of how Agua Caliente came about ("I built it, I organized it and opened it," he would remind the sitting president of Mexico). This memorandum, now dubbed the "Bowman Memorandum," has been read and assimilated by only a very few, perhaps just by the author and the former president, and is archived at the Fideicomiso Archivos Plutarco El?as Calles y Fernando Torreblanca in Mexico City.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 136693993X
• ISBN13: 9781366939937
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Blurb
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"