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As a result of the Mexican Revolution, many fled north to avoid the chaos. Some were able to find work with the railroad. Moving from job to job with the railroads, they began to settle and form colonias wherever the railroad stopped. Las Vegas is where one former Mexican soldier turned railroad worker named Augustine Mendzoa chose to settle. The Mendozas are one of the earliest Hispanic families to have settled in the Vegas Valley. The Honorable John Mendoza, Judge of the Eighth Judicial District Court, pictured here, is one of a handful of Hispanics who today can truthfully call themselves native Las Vegans.

Photograph in upper left shows the railyard in downtown Las Vegas, circa 1910s, including the Las Vegas Ice and Manufacturing Company building and other structures. One building says F. I. Kremer, Furniture on its roof. The photograph in the lower left shows Anna Bracken with her dogs on the porch of the Las Vegas Ranch house. The photograph in the lower right shows men with the first artesian well in Las Vegas Valley at the Taylor Ranch.