Last Ride on the Ferry is a fictional novel inspired by a true story in which all locations are real. Most of the story takes place in Hidalgo County in South Texas on the Lower Rio Grande Valley. This American family of Mexican descent (Mestizo, or now called Chicano) had ancestors who were displaced Mexicans when they once occupied the land we now know as Texas. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo of 1848 had changed history and as a result, the Ozuna family had kinfolk on both sides of the border. Adventure, hardships and ...
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Last Ride on the Ferry is a fictional novel inspired by a true story in which all locations are real. Most of the story takes place in Hidalgo County in South Texas on the Lower Rio Grande Valley. This American family of Mexican descent (Mestizo, or now called Chicano) had ancestors who were displaced Mexicans when they once occupied the land we now know as Texas. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo of 1848 had changed history and as a result, the Ozuna family had kinfolk on both sides of the border. Adventure, hardships and amusing times unfold as the family becomes migrant workers. Traveling, living in camps, and working with Braceros and undocumented immigrants, as well as changing schools five or more times a year were common for the kids. After Severo Ozunaas life cycle ends, the family honors their fatheras request to have his remains returned to Mexico and reunite with his umbilical cord. Seventy-one years ago, at the age of sixteen, he had swum the Rio Grande River illegally to come to the USA.
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