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The Aimless Life - Music, Mines, and Revolution from the Rocky Mountains to Mexico (Paperback, Annotated edition)
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The Aimless Life - Music, Mines, and Revolution from the Rocky Mountains to Mexico (Paperback, Annotated edition)
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In early March of 1915 news broke in El Paso that Leonard Worcester
Jr., a leading mining executive in the border region, was being
held in a Chihuahua jail without trial or release on bond.
Officials loyal to Francisco "Pancho" Villa had accused Worcester
of defrauding a Mexican company related to a shipment of zinc, a
charge without merit. While struggling to convince Mexican
officials of his innocence, Worcester found himself in the middle
of a maelstrom of economic interests, foreign diplomacy, and
revolution that engulfed the U.S.-Mexico border region after 1910.
Worcester's 1939 memoir of his "aimless" life describes an
important period in U.S. and Mexican history from the perspective
of an American miner, musician, and entrepreneur-running counter to
the bombast of boosters promoting Manifest Destiny. Introduced,
edited, and annotated by Andrew Offenburger, Worcester's
first-person account details the expansion of the American West,
mining and labor in Colorado, the formation of reservations in
Indian Territory, the Great Depression, and the everyday nature of
the Mexican Revolution in Chihuahua. Worcester's memoir, one of the
few written by an American living in the Mexican borderlands during
this important historical era, provides a snapshot of the
capitalist development of the American West and borderlands regions
in the second half of the nineteenth century and the early
twentieth century. Published in Cooperation with the William P.
Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist
University.
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