Title: 
Headings: Mexicano Contributions to the Southwest
Mexicano
 
Contributions
 
to
 
the
 
Southwest
 

17.1
 
Introduction
 

17.2
 
Mexicano
 
Mining
 
Contributions
 

17.3
 
Cattle
 
Ranching
 

17.4
 
The
 
Cowboy
 

17.5
 
Sheep
 
Raising
 

17.6
 
Irrigated
 
Farming
 

17.7
 
Mexican
 
Food
 

17.8
 
Spanish-style
 
Architecture
 

17.9
 
Mexican
 
Laws
 

17.10
 
Mexicano
 
Entertainments
 

17.11
 
Chapter
 
Summary
 


Content: Mucha
  
plata!” (“Much
 
silver!”) In
 
its
 
first
 
20
 
years,
 
the
 
Comstock
 
lode
 
yielded
 
over
 
$300
 
million
 
in
 
silver
 
and
 
gold. Mexicanos
 
discovered
 
copper
 
in
 
the
 
Southwest
 
in
 
the
 
early
 
1800s. When
 
Americans
 
began
 
to
 
mine
 
copper
 
in
 
Arizona,
 
they
 
turned
 
to
 
Mexican
 
miners
 
for
 
help. By
 
1940,
 
Arizona
 
mines
 
had
 
produced
 
$3
 
billion
 
worth
 
of
 
copper—copper
 
that
 
carried
 
electricity
 
and
 
telephone
 
calls
 
to
 
millions
 
of
 
homes
 
across
 
America. 17.3
 
Cattle
 
Ranching
 
Cattle
  
ranching
  
in
  
the
  
West
  
was
  
built
  
upon
  
traditions
  
brought
  
north
  
from
  
Mexico. Spanish
  
colonists
  
imported
  
the
  
first
 
cattle
 
to
 
the
 
Americas. The
 
animals
 
adapted
 
well
 
to
 
the
 
dry
 
conditions
 
of
 
Mexico
 
and
 
the
 
American
 
Southwest. In
 
time,
 
millions
 
of
 
Spanish
 
cattle
 
ran
 
wild
 
in
 
Texas
 
and
 
California.