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…on the cattle drives of the 1870s. However, the first substantial Mexican community in Wichita came about as a result of work on the railroads, most notably the Rock Island and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. Mexican workers began to arrive around 1900 with the first major influx arriving in the 1910s, fleeing the poverty and turmoil of Mexico and…
https://www.wichita.edu/academics/fairmount_las/history/local/NorthMarket/Beginnings.php