Summary of Luis Alberto Urrea's The Devil's Highway

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Book Preview: #1 The men were so sunstruck that they didn’t know their own names, couldn’t remember where they came from, or how long they had been lost. They were walking now just to find water, not salvation.

#2 The Devil’s Highway is a name that has set out to illuminate one notion: bad medicine. The first white man to die in the desert heat here did so on January 18, 1541.

#3 The history of Mexico is the history of white immigrants conquering and settling the country.

#4 The town of Sonoita, Mexico, was founded in 1541 by Spanish explorers who were looking for gold. It was a stopping point for them, and they did not want to spend their holidays there, but they were deep into hostile territory.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Mar 9, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669364719

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#1

The men were so sunstruck that they didn’t know their own names, couldn’t remember where they came from, or how long they had been lost. They were walking now just to find water, not salvation.

#2

The Devil’s Highway is a name that has set out to illuminate one notion: bad medicine. The first white man to die in the desert heat here did so on January 18, 1541.

#3

The history of Mexico is the history of white immigrants conquering and settling the country.

#4

The town of Sonoita, Mexico, was founded in 1541 by Spanish explorers who were looking for gold. It was a stopping point for them, and they did not want to spend their holidays there, but they were deep into hostile territory.

#5

The Yumas, a tribe in Arizona, were known for their encounters with the mysterious spirit-women, who would fly above their heads. The Jesuits who came to convert them were also met with hostility. The Yumas massacred the Glanton gang in the mid 1840s, and in 1848, the California gold rush began.

#6

The Devil’s Highway was a path between the O’Odham village of Sells and the Coyote pickup point