Gente Hispano History and Life in Colorado

Name: Gente Hispano History and Life in Colorado
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ISBN: 9780870815386

ISBN-10: 0870815385

ISBN-13: 9780870815386

Edition: N/A

Authors: Vincent C. De Baca

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Moving from exploration to biographical sketches, this book profiles the enigmatic Teresita Sandoval, cofounder of Pueblo; provides the turn-of-the-century memoir of vaquero Elfido Lopez; and offers a bilingual version of the autobiography of Pablo Cabeza de Baca, who recalls the values of his youth and his days at Denver's Sacred Heart College, the precursor of Regis University. Four essays study particular expressions of the employment conflict, including the infamous Ludlow coal strike of 1913-1914; Colorado's sugar beet industry, where Mexican immigrants faced constant discrimination; the growth of the state's sugar industry, the collapse of which devastated Mexicans (the preferred…

Book details

List price: $28.95
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Publication date: 12/15/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.02" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English