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Acknowledgments I have accumulated many debts to generous people and institutions while bringing this book to fruition. I enjoyed tremendous support when this project was a dissertation, and have continued to benefit from the help of wonderful friends, family, colleagues, and organizations while transforming it into a monograph. I am grateful to my thesis advisors, Oscar Martínez, Kevin Gosner, and Cheryl Martin. Without their astute counsel early on, it would have been much harder to turn this work into a monograph. Oscar Martínez has been encouraging and enthusiastic during every stage of the endeavor. I have benefited greatly from his advice and moral support during and after graduate school. In addition to being exceptionally kind, Kevin Gosner has been a conscientious reader, willing to share his expansive knowledge of history and anthropology. Cheryl Martin carefully and patiently edited earlier drafts of this work, and I am deeply grateful for the energy she put into its improvement. I hope that some of Bert Barickman’s devoted teaching and insightful critiques are reflected in this monograph. I thank Donna Guy for inspiring my interest in gender history. Because of her generosity and her knowledge, my time in the archives was far more rewarding. I am grateful for the support and intellectual rigor of many faculty members at Temple University and the University of Arizona, including Arthur Schmidt, Richard Immerman, Helen Nader, Hermann Rebel, Karen Anderson, and William Beezley. Scholars at various institutions provided me with friendship and intellectual challenge, beginning with my colleagues from graduate school. I thank Martha Santos, Sharon Baily-Glasco, Dina Berger, Sherri FranksJohnson , Michael Brescia, and Joy Jackson. I owe particular gratitude to my friends from the “dissertator group,” Meghan Winchell, Jodie Kreider , Jerry Pierce, H. Michael Gelfand, and Michael Crawford. They helped to make research and writing a more enjoyable and less lonely xii acknowledgments experience. Meghan and Jodie have continued to provide invaluable advice and moral support on later drafts. One of the most gratifying aspects of this undertaking has been the time spent in Mexico City and Sonora. Many people opened their homes to me and to my family, providing friendship and intellectual inspiration. Marcos Medina Bustos was a diligent and gracious Fulbright sponsor. He kindly invited me to participate in el Seminario del Siglo XIX, and introduced me to a dedicated and welcoming group of scholars in Hermosillo, including Ignacio Almada Bay, María del Carmen Tonella Trelles, Dora Elvia Enríquez, Aaron Grageda, María del Valle Borrero, Juan Manuel Romero Gil, Silvia Amaro, and Luis Rafael Martínez Álvarez. José René Córdova Rascón provided helpful suggestions and shared some critical sources. Carmen Bojorquez, Ana Isabel Grijalva, and Benjamín Alonso, were constant companions in the archives who generously shared their knowledge and good humor. Ana Isabel’s and Carmen’s doors were always open for conversation and a delicious meal. Cynthia Radding’s seminar, Fronteras y espacios en el Norte de México, was very beneficial and I am grateful to her for her hospitality and her continued willingness to share her extraordinary knowledge of the region. I thank Lizett Valenzuela, a dear neighbor, for graciously opening her home, helping with child care, and providing vital assistance on the translation of an article. Archival staffs of the Archivo General de la Nácion of Mexico City, the Archivo Histórico del Gobierno del Estado, the Archivo de la Mitra, the Colección Pesqueria of the Universidad de Sonora, Documentary Relations of the Southwest, the Museum of Alamos, the Palacio Municipal de Alamos, and Special Collections of the University of Arizona provided knowledgeable and friendly assistance. I am especially grateful to Doña Alicia Barrios and Francisco Arturo Aguirre Vázquez for their wonderful companionship and constant dedication to making the judicial archives available at the Archivo Histórico del Gobierno del Estado. I thank Carlos Lucero Aja for consistently pointing me to many valuable sources, for his hospitality, and for sharing generously from his family collection . Financial support for the dissertation and the monograph came from the Hewlett Foundation, the Fulbright-García Robles Fellowship, the Rockfellow Scholarship of the University of Arizona’s Department of History, and the Center for Excellence in Teaching at Georgia Southern University. acknowledgments xiii I have benefited from the friendship and support of many wonderful colleagues at Georgia Southern University and other nearby institutions. Cathy Skidmore-Hess, Michelle Haberland, Jonathan Bryant, and Bob Batchelor gave me helpful guidance on the manuscript, even...