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Border Crossings
Set against the volatile aftermath of Pancho Villa's 1916 raid, Border Crossings carries readers through a dangerous pursuit that stretches across the Texas-New Mexico-Mexico border region.
Publication
TCU Press, 1993
Setting
Texas-New Mexico border region and northern Mexico, after the Villa raid era
Genre
Historical fiction / Western border fiction
Ideal Readers
Readers of border history, Texas fiction, and character-driven historical adventure
Across a tense and uncertain frontier.
This novel turns toward the borderlands at a moment when memory of raids, revenge, and cross-border instability still shapes daily life. It follows a pursuit into Mexico involving former Texas Rangers and others drawn into violence, loyalty, and difficult choices.
The book expands Fleming's fictional territory from Central Texas into the wider Southwest, while preserving the qualities that define his work: regional knowledge, moral seriousness, and characters forced to act under pressure.
The borderlands novel.
Border Crossings stands between the intimate rural world of Summertime and the canyon-country intensity of Days of the River Rider. It marks a crucial turn toward historical border material and helps define Fleming as a novelist of Texas place and frontier consequence.