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

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. Extensive Mexican American settlements appeared throughout the lower and upper Midwest as the result of the railroad. Only agricultural work surpassed railroad work in terms of employment...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157441464X
• ISBN13: 9781574414646
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: University of North Texas Press
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"