Summary of Eric Nusbaum's Stealing Home

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 Abrana Cabral was born in 1893 in Mexico. She crossed into the United States at Laredo, Texas, on October 10, 1916, when she was nineteen years old and pregnant. She would have been traveling among businessmen and fellow immigrants.
#2 Abrana was probably traveling with her husband, Nicolas Ybarra, the father of the little girl growing inside her. Nicolas was also from Monte Escobedo. They were part of an entire generation fleeing north, drawn by the promise of stability and economic opportunity in Mexico.
#3 The American army, under Winfield Scott, landed in Veracruz and took the city following a bloody siege. They then marched their troops across the humid, soft countryside and up over the rocky volcanoes, until they reached the Valley of Mexico.
#4 The Mexican castle of Chapultepec was the last stand of the defenders of Mexico City, who were children under the age of sixteen. They were known as los Niños Héroes.

Sujets

• Architecture
• urban planning

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 22 juin 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822536968
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Eric Nusbaum's Stealing Home
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Abrana Cabral was born in 1893 in Mexico. She crossed into the United States at Laredo, Texas, on October 10, 1916, when she was nineteen years old and pregnant. She would have been traveling among businessmen and fellow immigrants.

#2

Abrana was probably traveling with her husband, Nicolas Ybarra, the father of the little girl growing inside her. Nicolas was also from Monte Escobedo. They were part of an entire generation fleeing north, drawn by the promise of stability and economic opportunity in Mexico.

#3

The American army, under Winfield Scott, landed in Veracruz and took the city following a bloody siege. They then marched their troops across the humid, soft countryside and up over the rocky volcanoes, until they reached the Valley of Mexico.

#4

The Mexican castle of Chapultepec was the last stand of the defenders of Mexico City, who were children under the age of sixteen. They were known as los Niños Héroes.

#5

Morenci, Arizona, was a small town, but it was crowded. It was like living under a magnifying glass. The sun was hot in the summers, and the company watched everything. Life was mostly work: mining copper ore, moving rocks from one place to another, smelting, and maintaining a home with almost nothing when a day’s wages would only buy a dozen eggs.

#6

The town of Morenci, Arizona, was the center of the copper mining industry in Arizona. It was here that Clifton-Morenci was one of the worst-paying mining districts in Arizona. Mexican miners made $2. 39 per shift compared to $2. 89 for Anglos.

#7

The Immigration Act of 1917 was a disaster for the agricultural, mining, and railroad industries in the Southwest that relied on immigrant labor. However, it did allow some immigrants to work in the United States as long as they were sponsored by a company.

#8

The story of the first baseball game played on Mexican soil is a myth. It did not happen. But for many years, people told the story like it did.

#9

In 1920, coyotes invaded Douglas, Arizona. Dr. Alan M. Wilkinson was a ear, nose, and throat specialist who had come to Douglas from northern Michigan as part of his service during World War I. He was against dancing, swearing, card playing, and especially drinking.

#10

The Wilkinsons had a traveling medical practice that took them all over the country. When they stopped in Trinidad, Colorado, a local police officer approached the family and assumed that Frank had been kidnapped. But in reality, it was because of a warning about a local child who was in danger.

#11

Frank was placed on a train with his sister Hildegarde, who was then about eighteen, and they traveled to Kansas City. There, Frank was subjected to Pasteur treatments. Six weeks of painful injections, three or four per day, a long way from home.

#12

On August 15, 1918, Abrena Cabral became a widow after three days under the care of a doctor. She had journeyed to America with her husband, Nicolas Ybarra, to start a new life. But her husband died of syphilis soon after they arrived in Morenci.

#13

During his childhood in Douglas, Frank was insulated from the simmering and sometimes violent labor struggles that were ongoing around the nearby copper mines. He was also insulated from the infamous Bisbee deportation, which saw thousands of union members arrested and sent off on a train to the middle of New Mexico without food or water.

#14

The Wilkinson family was driving out of town one morning when their car crashed into an ore train, sending little Frank through the roof of the car and into the wheels of the train. He was fine, but his mother was not.

#15

Manuel and Abrana traveled almost six hundred miles west through Tucson and Phoenix and Palm Springs. They reached California, the final destination of the American Dream. Abrana was the brains of the family, and she was the engine that drove them through each passing day.

#16

Abrana and Manuel went to Los Angeles in 1922, and bought a plot of land in Palo Verde, a prayer tucked into the Stone Quarry Hills just north of downtown. The hills had always been an afterthought, but they were now being used as a place where strange things happened.

#17

Palo Verde was a town in Los Angeles, California, that was mostly owned by a self-aggrandizing lawyer and progressive activist named Marshall Stimson. In 1922, Abrana and Manuel put up their tent there, and for a long time, this seemed like where their journey would end.

#18

The real story of Abner Doubleday is far more compelling than the mythological Abner Doubleday, who was allegedly the inventor of baseball. The truth is that baseball is a magic trick that has always been both a force of genuine power and a theatrical contrivance.

#19

Before he was married, Spalding had been engaged to a woman named Lizzie Churchill. Lizzie chose instead to marry another ballplayer, named George Mayer. Lizzie and George moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana, where she taught singing lessons and fell in with a spiritual group called the Theosophical Society.

#20

The rise of baseball in the American consciousness is similar to the rise of Los Angeles. It was conjured by a group of opportunists printing the legend at the expense of the fact, and it became something bigger and more interesting than its boosters could have ever imagined.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

Manuel and Abrana’s new life was similar to their old one. They had traveled hundreds of miles and come to a place not so different from Morenci, Arizona. They had a family, and they were happy.

#2

Palo Verde was the first town the Aréchigas settled in, and it grew house by house as other families came and settled down.

#3

The community of Palo Verde was located in Los Angeles, but they were invisible both physically and metaphorically.