LA FRONTERA
Entry 1: Caroline Adams
Source: Urrea, Luis Alberto The Devil's Highway 48
Quote: "The wide open spaces lay northward. The cowboys and Indians, the great Pancho Villa outlaws, the frontier, lay north, not west. That's why norteno people are the cowboys of Mexico- not westerners. The Spanish word for "border" is, after all, frontera. The Frontier" (48).
Reflections: The word 'la frontera' is described in this quote. It is explaining how they use 'frontera' as the border, where Americans think of the frontier as the old western United States. They think of 'frontera' as where all the outlaws and cowboys from Mexico go; they go north to the frontier. Frontier has always been referred to as the wild part with free and open rules, which explains why the author referred to 'outlaws' while describing this term. In the history of the United States, the frontier was also thought of as the criminals, outlaws, and cowboys home out west, where here 'la frontera' is north above the US Mexico border.
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