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2008 Annual Meeting Program The Association of American Geographers 2008 Annual Meeting April 15 - 19, 2008 Boston, Massachusetts PROGRAM The Association of American Geographers 1710 16th Street, NW Washington, DC 20009-3198 Phone (202) 234-1450 Fax (202) 234-2744 Web www.aag.org (PDLOJDLD#DDJRUJ Copyright © AAG 2008 BIG THICKET PEOPLE Larry Jene Fisher’s Photographs of the Last Southern Frontier By Thad Sitton and C. E. Hunt • Foreword by Maxine Johnston 88 b&w photos • $29.95 cloth ORE BORDER CITIZENS The Making of Indians, Mexicans, and Anglos in Arizona By Eric V. Meeks M Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University $24.95 paper, $60.00 cloth CREATING OUTDOOR CLASSROOMS D Schoolyard Habitats and Gardens for the Southwest By Lauri Macmillan Johnson With Kim Duffek • Drawings by James Richards 152 b&w photos, 156 line drawings • $39.95 paper AN EARLY TEXAS SCHOOLS A Photographic History Text by Mary S. 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