How Long to Read Crossing the Rio Grande

How Long Does it Take to Read Crossing the Rio Grande?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 3 minutes to read Crossing the Rio Grande by Luis G. Gómez

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Although they are among the most important sources of the history of the American Southwest, the lives of ordinary immigrants from Mexico have rarely been recorded. Educated and hardworking, Luis G. Gómez came to Texas from Mexico as a young man in the mid-1880s. He made his way around much of South Texas, finding work on the railroad and in other businesses, observing the people and ways of the region and committing them to memory for later transcription. Few of the 150,000 immigrants in the last half of the nineteenth century left written records of their experiences, but Gómez wrote his memoir and had it privately published in Spanish in 1935. Crossing the Rio Grande presents an English edition of that memoir, translated by the author’s grandson, Guadalupe Valdez Jr., with assistance from Javier Villarreal, a professor of Spanish at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi. An introduction by Thomas H. Kreneck explains the book’s value to scholarship and describes what has been learned of the publication history of the original Spanish-language volume. “Gómez says explicitly in the prologue to his memoirs that the purpose of recording the events of his life is to entertain; however, his memoirs accomplish much more than this as they fill a void in the history of the American Southwest of the late nineteenth century.”—Journal of the American Studies Association for Texas

How long is Crossing the Rio Grande?

Crossing the Rio Grande by Luis G. Gómez is 119 pages long, and a total of 30,821 words.

This makes it 40% the length of the average book. It also has 38% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Crossing the Rio Grande Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 48 minutes to read Crossing the Rio Grande aloud.

What Reading Level is Crossing the Rio Grande?

Crossing the Rio Grande is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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