"Oral history of the town of Jiquilpan in the state of Michoacan based on more than 200 interviews held between 1980-87 with persons born between 1895-1920. Each chapter has an introduction followed by extensive quotations from the interviews. Topics include: immigration to and return from the United States, the Cristero rebellion, and the agrarian reform of the 1930s"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.