Juan Salazar

Juan R. Salazar was born April 16, 1926, to Juan and Santos Rivera Salazar in Hidalgo, Mexico. He worked on his family farm and eventually migrated to the United States as a young man, working as a farm worker and cattle ranch hand. He traveled to various states in the U.S. including Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Arkansas — following his work and in pursuit of the “American Dream” for a better life for his wife and children. Juan, his wife, Maria, and their children settled in