A memoir of Guillermo V. Castaneda's childhood and upbringing in southern Colorado, from living on a farm with no water or electricity, to becoming homeless his last year of high school, to joining the Navy and enrolling in the University of Washington. This autobiography is a testament of the Mexican American experience, and details Italian American and mining communities of 1940's rural Colorado.
My Father Dug the Coal Mines Black
A memoir of Guillermo V. Castaneda's childhood and upbringing in southern Colorado, from living on a farm with no water or electricity, to becoming homeless his last year of high school, to joining the Navy and enrolling in the University of Washington. This autobiography is a testament of the Mexican American experience, and details Italian American and mining communities of 1940's rural Colorado.