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

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

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

    By Luis G. Gomez, Luis G. G. Mez, and Luis G. Gaomez

About Luis G. G. Mez Books

LUIS GÓMEZ migrated to South Texas in the mid-1880s. He wrote his memoir and privately published it in Spanish in 1935. GUADALUPE VALDEZ JR., who translated the Spanish original, is the grandson of Luis Gómez. THOMAS H. KRENECK is the associate director for special collections and archives at the Mary and Jeff Bell Library and the Joe B. Frantz Lecturer in Public History at Texas A&M University--Corpus Christi. He is also the author of Del Pueblo: A History of Houston's Hispanic Community and Mexican American Odyssey: Felix Tijerina, Entrepreneur and Civic Leader, 1905--1965, published by Texas A&M University Press.