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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.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in
an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the
digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books
may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading
experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have
elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.
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