Journal of the Southwest articles from March 2006

Journal of the Southwest archives from March 2006

Rio Rico and the Great Arizona land rush.
March 22, 2006... This is a slightly modified version of chapter eight in Landscapes of Fraud: Mission Tumacacori, the Baca Float, and the Betrayal of the O'odham, published in 2006 by the University of Arizona Press. Landscapes of Fraud explores how the Upper...

The Chinese Six Companies of San Francisco and the smuggling of Chinese immigrants across the U.S.-Mexico border, 1882-1930.
March 22, 2006... The Six Companies, or Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, of San Francisco played an important role in the immigration of Chinese to the United States and Mexico. (1) This was largely owing to the peculiar nature of this movement....

Biomass in the borderlands: charcoal and firewood production in Sonoran Ejidos.
March 22, 2006... In 1998 I attempted to cross the rugged Sierra Madre Occidental from Sinoquipe to Cucurpe. Despite the aid of good Mexican topographic maps, I lost my way on dirt roads that forever forked on the ejido lands of northeast Sonora. Instead of the...

Protecting the "white citizen worker": race, labor, and citizenship in South-Central Arizona, 1929-1945.
March 22, 2006... In June 1930, the Arizona State Federation of Labor (ASFL) called for new restrictions on Mexican immigration in order to protect the status of "white citizen workers of Arizona and other Southwestern states." (1) Arizona's trade unions had...