Download or read book Traqueros written by Jeffrey Marcos Garcilazo and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 the result of the railroad. The substantial Mexican American populations in these regions today are largely attributable to 19th- and 20th-century railroad work. Only agricultural work surpassed railroad work in terms of employment of Mexicans. The full history of Mexican American railroad labor and settlement in the United States had not been told, however, until Jeffrey Marcos Garcílazo's groundbreaking research in Traqueros. Garcílazo mined numerous archives and other sources to provide the first and only comprehensive history of Mexican railroad workers across the United States, with particular attention to the Midwest. He first explores the origins and process of Mexican labor recruitment and immigration and then describes the areas of work performed. He reconstructs the workers' daily lives and explores not only what the workers did on the job but also what they did at home and how they accommodated and/or resisted Americanization. Boxcar communities, strike organizations, and "traquero culture" finally receive historical acknowledgment. Integral to his study is the importance of family settlement in shaping working class communities and consciousness throughout the Midwest.

Download or read book A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946 written by Richard C. Carpenter and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little now remains of the vast network of passenger and freight railroad lines that once crisscrossed much of eastern and midwestern America, but in 1946, the steam locomotive was king. This is a record of a time when traveling out of town meant, for most Americans, taking the train.

Download or read book State Regulation of Railroads in the South written by Maxwell Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Annual Report of the Railroad Commission of the State of Florida written by Railroad Commission of the State of Florida and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Annual Report on the Railroads of the State of New York written by New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Railroad Laws of the State of New York from 1850 to 1871 Inclusive written by New York (State) and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Railroad and the State written by Robert G. Angevine and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the complex and changing relationship between the U.S. Army and American railroads during the nineteenth century.

Download or read book Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners written by New York (State). Board of Railroad Commissioners and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pere Marquette written by Graydon M. Meints and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pere Marquette Railroad has not one but two histories--one for the twentieth century and one for the nineteenth. While the twentieth-century record of the Pere Marquette Railroad has been well studied and preserved, the nineteenth century has not been so well served. This volume aims to correct that oversight by focusing on the nineteenth-century part of the company's past, including the men who formed and directed these early roads, and the development of the system. The Pere Marquette Railroad was formed in 1900 by a merger of three Michigan railroad companies and lasted forty-seven years, disappearing in June 1947 by merger into the maw of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad. Prior to the 1900 merger, the Pere Marquette Railroad's predecessors made up a motley collection of disconnected and unaffiliated short, local rail lines. After the financial panic of 1893, and with some commonality of ownership, the companies worked together more closely. Before the end of the decade, the three main railroads--the Flint & Pere Marquette; the Detroit, Lansing & Northern; and the Chicago & West Michigan--had decided that the only way to maintain solvency was to merge. Using a plethora of primary sources including railway timetables and maps, this work lends insight into the little-known corporate business history of the Pere Marquette Railroad.

Download or read book Report of the Railroad Commission of the State of California Covering the Period from written by Railroad Commission of the State of California and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Decisions of the Railroad Commission of the State of California written by Railroad Commission of the State of California and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Decisions and Opinions of the Railroad and Warehouse Commission of the State of Illinois Volume III written by Illinois. Railroad and Warehouse Commission and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Lackawanna Railroad in Northwest New Jersey written by Larry Lowenthal and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: