idaho road map Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/idaho-road-map Wed, 11 May 2016 11:16:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Idaho Map http://toursmaps.com/idaho-map.html http://toursmaps.com/idaho-map.html#respond Sat, 14 May 2016 00:32:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=204074 Railroad and Farm Laborers In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Mexican American pioneer families such as the Urquides, Fontes, Ortiz, Amera, Valdez, Galindo, Ocampo, Ursino, Escaso, Ruiz, and Carusia enjoyed relative prosperity, respect, and acceptance in their Idaho communities. But Idaho’s economy underwent change during that time. The gold rush was short lived, and in its place emerged an expanding agricultural and livestock industry. Railroads penetrated the territory and the federal government made lands available to thousands of settlers attracted to Idaho by large-scale, government-financed irrigation projects. Southern Idaho’s Snake River desert plateau now burst with sugar beets,

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