A traquero is a railroad track worker, or "section hand", especially a Mexican or Mexican American railroad track worker ("gandy dancer" in American English...

runner Railway lubricator Section gangs Signal maintainer Track inspector Traquero Platelayer Navvy (navigator) Track foreman Structure Maintainer Lighting...

railroads to begin importing Mexican railroad workers in greater numbers ("traqueros"). In the 1890s–1920s era, nativists and labor unions campaigned for immigration...

lands east of the current town site, and in the 1890s, a few hundred traqueros settled along the tracks. In 1901, the citizens of Woodspur voted on a...

was "white", the rest were Mexicans especially in the eastern ends when traqueros arrived to maintain the area's railroads, and Native Americans of local...

railroads to begin importing Mexican railroad workers in greater numbers ("traqueros"). In 1943 when China was an ally against Japan, the restrictions were...

pouring over the border were widespread; however, the need for Mexican traquero labor, farmworkers, and miners meant that enforcement against Mexican laborers...

Mexico, Mexican and Mexican-American track workers were colloquially traqueros. In the United States, early section crews were often made up of recent...

Diss.). Northern Illinois University. Garcilazo, Jeffrey Marcos (2012). Traqueros: Mexican Railroad Workers in the United States, 1870 to 1930. University...

railroads to begin importing Mexican railroad workers in greater numbers ("traqueros"). Attacks on the Japanese in the Western U.S., echoing the dreaded Yellow...