Notes

Part I. Formation

1. Searching and Planning

9. Day laborers in agricultural servitude.

10. John Mason Hart. Empire and Revolution: The American in Mexico since the Civil War. Berkley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002.

11. Benj. M. Massey and C. L. Gilbert. Massey-Gilbert Blue Book of Mexico City, The Massey-Gilbert Company, Sucs. Mexico City, D. F. Mexico, 1901.

12. James Creelman, President Diaz Hero of the Americas," Interview with President Portofio Diaz, Pearson's, March 1908, http://www.emersonkent.com/historic_documents/creelman_interview.pdf.

13. George E. Blalock, 1925 Affidavit. See note 1 above.

14. Wesley Ricks, 1926 Affidavit, Records of the Special Mexican Claims Commission, RG 76, 125, Case Files for United States Claimants 1924-36, National Archives at College Park, MD.

15. George E. Blalock, 1925 Affidavit. See note 1 above.

16. U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Investigation of Mexican Affairs: Blalock testimony before a Subcommittee of Committee of Foreign Relations 66th Cong., 2nd Sess., Pursuant to S. Res. 106, Part 8, 979-993. San Antonio, Texas, January 14, 1920, http://books.google.com/books.

17. George E. Blalock, 1925 Affidavit. See note 1 above.

18. "Blalock has a big scheme," Mangum Sun-Monitor, July 10, 1902.

19. Wesley Ricks, 1926. See note 14 above.

20. Mangum (OT.) Sun-Monitor, July 10, 1902. See note 18 above.

21. "About the Mexican colony," Mangum Sun-Monitor, July 24, 1902, vol. 12:1, No 30.

22. Mangum Sun-Monitor, July 24, 1902. See note 21 above.