Candelaria Garcia Padilla Family Tree
List of Illustrations
Preface
Prologue: Dodge City, Kansas, 1920
Part I: Candelaria
1. The Challenges of Hacienda Life
2. Candelaria’s Children, Courtship, the Military Threat
3. The Flight to El Paso, Fernando’s Arrival
4. Life and Death in El Paso, the Santa Fe in Kansas
5. The “Village” Labor Camps, the Teen Bride
6. The Barest Segregated School and Church, the Great War
7. Surviving the 1918 Pandemic, the Taking of Rafaela
8. Candelaria’s Grandchildren, the Cold of November 1927
Part II: Rafaela
9. Steadfast Through the Dust Bowl and Depression, Irene’s Diploma
10. Leaving the Village, World War II Begins, Irene’s Marriage
Part III: Irene
11. Victory, the Baby Boom Arrives, Death by TB
12. Enedina’s Ordeal, Arrivals and Passings, Higher Education
13. Work and Stress, Radio DJs, Floodwaters
14. Election Campaign, Miracle Birth, Cayetano’s Fall
15. The Disclosure, the Board of Education, the Last Relief
16. The Rivalry Ends, Life Is for the Living
Epilogue
Postscript: Las Madres Legacy
References
Index