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Dee, Rosa Flores

 
9780738579474: Progreso (Images of America)
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ISBN 10: 0738579475 ISBN 13: 9780738579474
Editorial: ARCADIA PUB (SC), 2010

Sinopsis

Spanish for "progress," Progreso is famous for the millions of tourists, known as "Winter Texans," who drive through the town to visit Mexico. Rumor has it that Al Capone did the same thing during Prohibition. Perhaps the first visitor captivated by the Rio Grande was Juan Jose Hinojosa, as he asked the Spanish crown for rights to the land that is now Progreso on July 4, 1776. But it was Florencio Saenz, founder of the iconic Toluca Ranch, who requested a U.S. post office in 1896. Connecting to the Spiderweb Railroad in the 1920s gave the town a short-lived commercial farming boom that attracted prominent investors. In the late 1940s, though, two disastrous freezes killed the citrus industry, and farmers switched to vegetables and cotton. After the Progreso International Bridge was built in 1953, growers gained access to the Mexican market, an advantage that continues to attract people to this small town along the Rio Grande.

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Author Rosa Flores Dee earned three degrees from the University of Texas at Austin and is a reporter at WDSU, the NBC affiliate in New Orleans, Louisiana. She has gathered nearly 200 remarkable photographs from local families and museums in the Rio Grande Valley to celebrate her hometown.

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ARCADIA PUB (SC)
Año de publicación
2010
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ISBN 10 
0738579475
ISBN 13 
9780738579474
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Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
127
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