Traqueros: Mexican Railroad Workers in the United States, 1870-1930 Volume 6

by Jeffrey Marcos Garcilazo

Book Overview

Perhaps no other industrial technology changed the course of Mexican history in the United States--and Mexico--than did the coming of the railroads. Tens of thousands of Mexicans worked for the railroads in the United States, especially in the Southwest and Midwest. Construction crews soon became railroad workers proper, along with maintenance crews later. Extensive Mexican American settlements appeared throughout the lower and upper Midwest as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1574416278
• ISBN13: 9781574416275
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: University of North Texas Press
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"