On trials they made from San Diego to Tucson. from Santa Fe to El Paso. Vera Cruz. and Mexico City. supplies were brought to mining camps and settlements. MexicanAmericans taught early American and European immigrant fortyniners much about how and where to pan and mill gold and they figured prominently in the work involved in mining. The trails of the gold rush and pack trains were supplanted by railroads and todays turnpikes. Mexican labor laid the ties and drove the spikes of the rail lines. living with their families in the boxcars which were their homes on wheels as they built the railroads across the country.
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