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Author Gómez, Luis G.

Title Crossing the Rio Grande : an immigrant's life in the 1880s / Luis G. Gómez ; translated and with commentary by Guadalupe Valdez Jr. ; introduction by Thomas H. Kreneck ; edited by Guadalupe Valdez, Jr. and Thomas H. Kreneck
Edition 1st ed
Published College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 106 pages) : illustrations, map
Series Gulf Coast studies ; no. 9
Gulf Coast studies ; no. 9.
Contents My pilgrimage in Texas ; A rare coincidence ; Another unusual incident -- My arrival in Houston -- The negro brakeman! -- An opíparo breakfast ; Very delightful conversations with friends ; A mule loaded with gold! -- The company "Tamez-Gómez, contractors" signs very lucrative new contracts ; An unexpected meeting with Mr. Stafford -- The phantom! -- Where we will hear the true story of that mysterious petite woman
Summary An English edition of the memoirs of the life of early immigrant and pioneer, Luis G. Gomez, who came to Texas from Mexico in the mid-1800s
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Gómez, Luis G.
SUBJECT Gómez, Luis G. fast
Subject Mexican Americans -- Texas, South -- Biography
Immigrants -- Texas, South -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
Immigrants
Mexican Americans
SUBJECT Texas, South -- Biography
Subject South Texas
Genre/Form collective biographies.
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Valdez, Guadalupe Jr.
Kreneck, Thomas H.
LC no. 2005037457
ISBN 9781603445320
1603445323
Other Titles Mis memorias. English