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The 55th annual conference of the Western History Association takes place this Wednesday through Saturday (October 21-24) in Portland, Oregon, and UW Press is looking forward to celebrating scholarship in the diverse history of North American Wests.
If you will be attending the conference, we hope you will join us for scheduled morning book signings at booth #32 with authors Jen Corrinne Brown (Thursday) and John R. Gram (Friday).
UW Press Director Nicole Mitchell, Senior Acquisitions Editor Ranjit Arab, and Assistant Editor Whitney Johnson will be representing the Press—be sure to stop by to say hello and to check out our latest Western history offerings, including titles in the Indigenous Confluences series.
Here is a sampling of new and recent titles we will be featuring at the conference as well as the book signing details.
Book Signing with Jen Corrinne Brown
Thursday, October 22 at 10 a.m., Booth #32
Trout Culture: How Fly Fishing Forever Changed the Rocky Mountain West
By Jen Corrinne Brown
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Activist Spoken Histories
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In Sickness and in Health: Migrant Citizenships in the Postwar Years
In the fall of 1948, dozens of Mexican men were recruited to pick cotton in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Their journey began in Gómez Palacio, a railroad hub in the northern Mexican state of Durango. The men traveled at their own expense, likely via train, to the growing metropolis of Monterrey, where they enlisted in the Bracero Program, the first major temporary labor recruitment or “guest worker” scheme jointly organized by the Mexican and U.S. governments. After screening and selection by representatives of both governments, they signed standard labor contracts with agents for the Farmers Association of Jefferson County, Arkansas. Many had some degree of literacy in Spanish and so could learn about the various guarantees that came with their contracts: set wage rates on par with local laborers, medical care, worker’s compensation, sanitary lodging (including blankets, beds, and mattresses), disability pay, and transportation to the work site with food along the journey.
Yet as soon as the recruiters’ trucks delivered them to their new work sites in Pine Bluff and Altheimer, Arkansas, the workers grew outraged at what they found. As two of the men, José Luís Landa and Manuel Gallegos,