DANCE RIO RICO: One last dance for Al Capone

That morning in 1886, dusty little town, Río Rico, rested quietly in a thumb-shaped piece of Texas that stuck into Mexico. The border between the countries followed the Río Grande River with the 'thumb,' making the then-Texas town accessible only from the East. Suddenly, mid-afternoon, all the town's 456 U.S. citizen residents heard the blast that changed their lives forever.

Texas rancher, Theron Slay, hated Mexican rancher Don Pablo Cortéz, so he blew out the river's bank sending it strai...