The Crossing: El Paso, the Southwest, and America's Forgotten Origin Story

A New Yorker Best Book of the Year * A Southwest Book of the Year “Top Pick”

“American history did not begin in the Northeast. It began in the Southwest,’ Parker asserts, in this sweeping history.” —The New Yorker

A revelatory work of Southwest history that recenters the American origin story two-thousand miles west of Plymouth Rock, in El Paso, Texas—heart of Indigenous power and resistance, locus of Spanish colonization of North America, centuries-long hub of immigration, and underappreciat...