When We Were Young in the West

by Melzer, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780865343382
• ISBN10: 0865343381
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Sunstone Pr

Summary

Presents biographical sketches of New Mexican children from different cultures, races, and classes who represent the strength and diversity of this state's heritage.

Table of Contents

Preface	9	(2)
Introduction	11	(2)
Trail Childhood	13	(15)
Marion Sloan Russell Adventure on the Santa Fe Trail, 1852	13	(7)
Working on the Santa Fe Trail, 1867	20	(8)
Jose Librado Gurule
Military Childhoods	28	(9)
The Future General's Youth at Fort Selden, 1884--86	28	(4)
Douglas MacArthur
The Post Surgeon's Son at Fort Union, 1887--1891	32	(5)
Aubrey Lippincott
Village Childhoods	37	(14)
Cibola Memories Filled With Tradition	37	(7)
Abe Pena
A Life of Harmony and Respect	44	(7)
Cleofas Martinez Jaramillo
City Childhoods	51	(18)
A Healthseeker's Diary, Santa Fe, 1859	51	(10)
John Watts
Going to the Territorial Fair	61	(8)
Kenneth C. Balcomb
Farming Childhoods	69	(44)
Becoming a Peon de la Acequia	69	(4)
Francis Quintana
Humble Lives Filled with Joy	73	(29)
Angelica Gurule Chavez
Marcelina Miranda Chavez
Homesteading on the Prairie	102	(11)
Lula Collins Daudet
Ruth Collins Roberts
Ranching Childhoods	113	(42)
Waiting for Rain---and Storytelling---on the Llano	113	(7)
Fabiola Cabeza de Baca
Live and Let Live in Cattle Country	120	(9)
Agnes Morley Cleaveland
Bravely Defying His Handicap	129	(10)
Wilbur Franklin Coe
Branding Calves and Saving a Cow	139	(10)
Ralph Reynolds
The Trouble with Rattlesnakes	149	(6)
Lindley J. Stiles
Troubled Childhoods	155	(12)
Billy the Kid's Teenage Years in Silver City	155	(5)
Finding a Place to Stand	160	(7)
Jimmy Santiago Baca
Mining Childhoods	167	(18)
Boyhood in a Frontier Silver Mining Camp	185
James K. Hastings
Oral Histories: Coal Town Childhood	175	(10)
Native American Childhoods	185	(10)
Hard Times and Good on the Navajo Reservation	185	(6)
Tall Woman
Full Circle	191	(4)
Lori Arviso Alvord
School Lives	195	(49)
Mischief and Responsibility at a Homesteaders' School	195	(5)
Tomas Wesley Brown
Oral Histories: Pueblo Children at the Santa Fe Indian School	200	(6)
Oral Histories: Hispanic Boys at the Menaul School in Albuquerque	206	(11)
Roughing It at the Elite Los Alamos Boys Ranch School	217	(10)
Charles S. Pearce
Integrating a White High School in the 1950s	227	(17)
Haroldie Kent Spriggs
Sammie J. Kent
Wartime Childhoods	244	(12)
World War II in Albuquerque	244	(5)
Margarita Graciella Armijo
Oral Histories: Teenage Years at Los Alamos, the Most Secretive Town of World War II	249	(7)
Athletic Childhoods	256	(17)
Sports---From Football to Bicycling---in the 1890s	256	(7)
Roy A. Stamm
A Track Star in Albuquerque, 1960s	263	(10)
John Baker
Conclusion	273	(48)
Chapter Notes	321	(16)
Suggested Readings	337	(4)
Index	341