A Gold Rush Salvadoran in CA's Latino World 1857

A Gold Rush Salvadoran in California's Latino World, 1857

A close analysis of an 1857 open letter to the Spanish-speaking press in Los Angeles by Angel Mora, a departing Salvadoran miner, provides hints to the opportunities that drew Central Americans to the California gold rush, as well as the personal and historical reasons for their disillusion and departure. It also illuminates Central Americans' national identity, their sense of community with Hispanics from other countries, and their response to events in their homelands

Read the Historical Society of Southern California Southern California Quarterly Fall 2009, Volume 91, No.3 article:

A-Gold-Rush-Salvadoran-in-Californias-Latino-World-1857.pdf