Perhaps no other industrial technology changed the course of Mexican history in the United Statesa??and Mexicoa??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.A 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 GarcA­lazo’s groundbreaking research in Traqueros. GarcA­lazo mined numerous archives and other sources to provide the first and only comprehensive history of...

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