Viva George!: Celebrating Washington's Birthday at the Us-Mexico Border

by Pea Elaine a and Elaine A. Peña

2021 Jim Parish Award for Documentation and Publication of Local and Regional History, Webb County Heritage Foundation

For 120 years, residents of the cross-border community of Laredo/Nuevo Laredo have celebrated George Washington's birthday together, and this account reveals the essential political work of a time-honored civic tradition.

Since 1898, residents of Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, have reached across...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477321446
• ISBN13: 9781477321447
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"