Category Archives: Mexican-American history

Laramie’s Latin American Club

Posted on September 13, 2021 by ahcadmin

September 15 through October 15 is National Hispanic Heritage Month. Wyoming has a historically significant Hispanic and Manito population, some of whom came and went for work while others made Wyoming their home. Spanish-speaking people from northern New Mexico, called … Continue reading →

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Amigos de la Comunidad of Torrington, Wyoming

Posted on September 7, 2020 by ahcadmin

In box 9 of the Lawrence Cardoso papers housed at the American Heritage Center is a booklet dating to the mid-1970s titled “Amigos de la Comunidad.” I was leafing through that particular box searching for something totally unrelated. But the … Continue reading →

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Lovell’s Latin American Colony

Posted on September 30, 2018 by ahcadmin

In 1916, the sugar beet industry brought the first serious wave of Mexican-speaking migrants to Lovell: betabeleros, the beet workers, to hoe the fields and help with the harvest. Yet most were not Mexican nationals, but rather Spanish-speaking people from … Continue reading →

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