This body of water was central to a dispute resolved in 1927 that resulted in the unusual geographic position of the so-called “Country Club Area.” C. R. Moore foiled a double assassination attempt in 1909 during a conference that involved land adjacent to this body of water called Cordova Island. A 1967 discovery by James Hill Jr. has allowed over 250 people to successfully claim citizenship due to being born near this body of water on the Horcón (“ohr-KOHN”) Tract. Outside of Bluetown near the mouth of this river sits a historical marker for the (*) Thornton Affair. Its course was partly placed into a concrete channel in the 1960s to resolve the long-running Chamizal dispute. An incident at a city near this river’s mouth resulted in Theodore Roosevelt dishonorably discharging buffalo soldiers who allegedly killed a white bartender. For 10 points, Brownsville lies at the mouth of what river which sets the US–Mexico border in Texas? ■END■
ANSWER: Rio Grande [or Rio Bravo del Norte]
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