Crossing the Rio Grande: An Immigrant's Life in the 1880s
(Part of the Gulf Coast Books Series)
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Although they are among the most important sources of the history of the American Southwest, the lives of ordinary immigrants from Mexico have rarely been recorded. Educated and hardworking, Luis G. G mez came to Texas from Mexico as a young man in the mid-1880s. He made his way around much of South Texas, finding work on the railroad and in other businesses, observing the people and ways of the region and committing them to memory for later transcription...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:160344808X
ISBN13:9781603448086
Release Date:September 2012
Publisher:Texas A&M University Press
Length:120 Pages
Weight:0.35 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"
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