He saw service on the Mexican border due to the rise of tension along the border following the Battle of Agua Prieta.
He worked for five years for the U.S. State Department as a foreign service clerk at Agua Prieta, a border city in his native Sonora, but he never forgot his dream of becoming a lawyer.
The southern portion of the valley drains into Mexico through Douglas, Arizona–Agua Prieta, Sonora, and into the Yaqui River.
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On March 12, 1913, the federal Mexican General Pedro Ojeda evacuated Agua Prieta due to an advancing and overwhelming rebel army.