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Home Beginnings Growth Center Change Rebirth Beginnings Mexicans have been coming to Wichita starting in the 1870s, when they came as Vaqueros on the cattle drives. They numbers remained small, however, for much of the 1800s. The first substantial Mexican community in Wichita came about as a result of work on the railroads, most notably the Atchison, Topeka …
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