Smeltertown making and remembering a Southwest border community / Monica Perales.

Contents pt. 1. Making places -- Making a border city -- Creating Smeltertown -- pt. 2. Making identities -- We're just smelter people -- We were one hundred percent Mexican -- She was very American -- pt. 3. Remembering Smeltertown -- The demise of Smeltertown -- Epilogue: Finding Smeltertown.
Abstract Traces the history of Smeltertown, Texas, a city located on the banks of the Rio Grande that was home to generations of ethnic Mexicans who worked at the American Smelting and Refining Company in El Paso, Texas, with information from newspapers, personal archives, photographs, employee records, parish newsletters, and interviews.
General note"Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2010004479
ISBN9780807834114 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0807834114 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780807871461 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN080787146X (pbk. : alk. paper)

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