by Rich Wandschneider | Feb 20, 2023 | Maxville, racism, Rail routes West. Pacific railroads, railroads
There was a short interview on NPR this morning about a new book about Black women and trains. I didn’t catch much of it, but the book was written by a scholar, and she talked about the importance of trains as both a part of and a symbol of the country’s Westward...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jul 18, 2014 | fur trade, homestead act, indentured servants, Luis Urrea, pre-emption act, railroads, refugees
At the Fishtrap Gathering this weekend, writer Luis Alberto Urrea talked about the border. He’d written a non-fiction book, The Devil’s Highway, about 26 from Vera Cruz who crossed the border in 2001—twelve made it, and fourteen died in the trying. The book was a...
