Heritage Colorado

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Recollection of the Mexican Revolution and his opinion on Pancho Villa and Guillermo Baca; his emigration to the United States, the Spanish Flu of 1918, of which his mother died; the Depression.

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Recalls life as a laborer on a hacienda before the Mexican Revolution; discrimination he encounters in Kansas; the Battle of Aguascalientes; Villa, Carranza, and Madero; the Spanish Flu of 1918, the Depression; La toma de Zacatecas.

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Born in Mexico; came from a large family, many of whom died during the Spanish Flu of 1918; the Mexican Revolution and various personalities; came to the United States in 1925 and worked with the Sante Fe Railroads in Oklahoma; has worked in Chicago, New York, Indiana, and Buffalo; worked as a Bracero in 1954; opinions about undocumented workers in the United States and personal observattions about M?xico.

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Personalities and events of the Mexican Revolution, including Pancho Villa and Francisco I. Madero, the Spanish Flu of 1918. Barber for Pancho Villa.

Abstract Leavitt gives a little family history and mentions that her grandfather, a farmer, was the first person in Mesa to dig a well. She mentions several downtown businesses including the post office, Clyde's furniture store, Dennett's drugstore, LeSueur's grocery store, and The Toggery. She also recalls the Mezona dance hall and the Opera House theater. Leavitt talks about the flu epidemic when her entire family was ill and her uncle died leaving behind a wife and ten children. She recalls when...