Crossing the Rio Grande: An Immigrant's Life in the 1880s
"The memoirs are outstanding for their literary, ethnographic, sociological, and historical quality." --Arnoldo De León, Angelo State University" . . . a vital contribution to the growing literature on Mexicans and Mexican Americans. . . . unique because few documents by Mexicans of this period have been found or published." --Journal of Southern History,November 2007". . . brings an important historical perspective to the current debate swirling over immigration, and in it we hear a voice not often detected: that of an ordinary man, never well-known outside his community, who accomplished something beyond the mean in his remarkable life." --PleiadesCrossing the Rio Grandeprovides a valuable and accessible resource to a reader familiar with the fundamentals of Texas's immigration history. --SWHQ,Fall 2007