Crossing the Rio Grande: An Immigrant's Life in the 1880s

by Luis G. Gomez

Book Overview

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"